{"id":8955,"date":"2016-10-05T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T21:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2016-10-06T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:02:17","slug":"whites-thrush-holy-island-5th-oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8955","title":{"rendered":"White&#8217;s Thrush &#8211; Holy Island 5th Oct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst photographing a <strong>Brambling<\/strong> on St. Mary&#8217;s Island this morning, news broke of a bird right at the top of most British birder&#8217;s wishlist, and one I didn&#8217;t think any current Northumberland birder had seen in the county, a <strong>White&#8217;s Thrush<\/strong>! One had been discovered in trees along Holy Island&#8217;s Straight Lonnen by a lucky visiting birder, Peter Ralph.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8956 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_115-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_05_9999_115\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_115-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_115-768x783.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_115-392x400.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_115.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8957 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_119-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_05_9999_119\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_119-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_119-768x742.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_119-414x400.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_119.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>The earliest I could go was 1pm and not believing the bird would stay around that long, I didn&#8217;t build my hopes up. It did stay, all day in fact, keeping faithful to a small copse of trees, sitting motionless for long periods.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up Mike Potts and within little more than an hour we were watching the mythical creature!It moved occasionally from it&#8217;s low perches, once or twice affording a glimpse of it&#8217;s striking underwing pattern, but always showing the beautiful, cyrptic\u00a0black scaled plumage.<\/p>\n<p>Local birders kept arriving all afternoon to catch up with this stunning mega- rarity.It was still present when we left and\u00a0up until dusk.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8958 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_6-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_05_9999_6\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_6-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_6-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_6-551x400.jpg 551w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_6.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8959 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_67-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"2016_10_05_9999_67\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_67-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_67-768x654.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_67-470x400.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016_10_05_9999_67.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>A.S.Jack<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst photographing a Brambling on St. Mary&#8217;s Island this morning, news broke of a bird right at the top of most British birder&#8217;s wishlist, and one I didn&#8217;t think any current Northumberland birder had seen in the county, a White&#8217;s Thrush! One had been discovered in trees along Holy Island&#8217;s Straight Lonnen by a lucky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8955","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\/8955","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}