{"id":8645,"date":"2016-09-02T21:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:44:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:44:32","slug":"caspian-tern-at-big-waters-on-the-27th-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8645","title":{"rendered":"Caspian Tern &#8211; at Big Waters on the 27th July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year birdwatchers flocked to Big Waters Nature Reserve to catch up with some visiting <strong>Black Terns<\/strong>, which remained for a few hours one bright and sunny Sunday afternoon. In July however, one very lucky birder was extremely lucky to witness a visit from the world\u2019s largest Tern; a <strong>Caspian Tern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Photos below by Brian Bullough<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-1-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-1-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"caspian-tern-1-august-16-brian-bullough-big-waters-sightings\" width=\"450\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-1-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-1-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-1-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings-394x400.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-2-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-2-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"caspian-tern-2-august-16-brian-bullough-big-waters-sightings\" width=\"450\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-2-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-2-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-2-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings-512x400.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-3-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-3-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"caspian-tern-3-august-16-brian-bullough-big-waters-sightings\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-3-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-3-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Caspian-Tern-3-August-16-Brian-Bullough-Big-Waters-sightings-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year birdwatchers flocked to Big Waters Nature Reserve to catch up with some visiting Black Terns, which remained for a few hours one bright and sunny Sunday afternoon. In July however, one very lucky birder was extremely lucky to witness a visit from the world\u2019s largest Tern; a Caspian Tern. Photos below by [&hellip;]<\/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":[20,175,174],"class_list":{"0":"post-8645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-big-waters","8":"tag-brian-bullough","9":"tag-caspian-tern"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","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=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8657,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}