{"id":8109,"date":"2016-06-02T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2016-06-04T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:51:41","slug":"8109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8109","title":{"rendered":"2nd June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decided to try for the Bonaparte’s Gull<\/strong> which has been settling to an area E\u00a0of the A189 flyover on the Wansbeck estuary. Parking at North Seaton Colliery &\u00a0coming in from N end worked out well. \u00a0Found the Bonaparte’s immediately just E of\u00a0the flyover as distinctly smaller than the Black-headed’s accompanying it. In fact\u00a0at first though it small enough to be a Little Gull but plumage features became\u00a0apparent whilst scoping & flight views showed it to be very different. Behaved\u00a0admirably as later came much closer on to N bank of estuary. Really dainty gull &\u00a0always much more jizz of Little Gull than a Black-headed. \u00a0Well pleased & after a pub lunch at Plough Inn at Ellington (also recommended!) \u00a0on to Druridge Pools. This gave us a prime opportunity to compare Little Gull with\u00a0Bonaparte’s as three first-summer Little Gulls from N hide flying close to hide. \u00a0Hence flight picture here is the close-up rather than the distant flight pics of the Bonaparte’s. \u00a0Also at Druridge were 5 \u00a0Ruff , some males in immaculate plumage. No\u00a0sign of Broad-billed Sandpiper though seen here by lucky people on 31st May.<\/p>\n

T R Dean \/ J Dean<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\"DSC_4990<\/a>\n\"DSC_5032<\/a>\n\"DSC_5011<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decided to try for the Bonaparte’s Gull which has been settling to an area E\u00a0of the A189 flyover on the Wansbeck estuary. Parking at North Seaton Colliery &\u00a0coming in from N end worked out well. \u00a0Found the Bonaparte’s immediately just E of\u00a0the flyover as distinctly smaller than the Black-headed’s accompanying it. In fact\u00a0at first though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}