{"id":1830,"date":"2011-05-19T20:37:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2011-05-19T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:38:16","slug":"little-ringed-plover-spotted-in-wearside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/2011\/05\/little-ringed-plover-spotted-in-wearside\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Ringed Plover spotted in Wearside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to a North East England nature reserve have been rewarded with a wide selection of wading birds, thanks to the dryer than normal conditions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1831\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Little-Ringed-Plover-Mark-Newsome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1831\" title=\"Little Ringed Plover - Pic Mark Newsome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Little-Ringed-Plover-Mark-Newsome-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"Little Ringed Plover - Pic Mark Newsome\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Ringed Plover - Pic Mark Newsome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Redshank, green and common sandpiper, oystercatcher and lapwing, are all taking advantage of the lowered water levels and exposed muddy margins on which to feed at <a title=\"Rainton Meadows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.durhamwt.co.uk\/Rainton%20Meadows%20and%20Joes%20Pond.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rainton Meadows<\/a>, Wearside, the\u00a0 headquarters of Durham Wildlife Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Manager Mark Richardson said: \u201cPart of our management is to improve the ponds for wading birds. We\u2019ve done a lot of work over the winter to achieve this, so it\u2019s great that we are already getting results&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Little Ringed Plover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/l\/littleringedplover\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Little ringed plover<\/a> have also been recorded in front of tone of the bird hides.<\/p>\n<p>A Temminck&#8217;s stint, a bird that is seldom seem in the area has also been spotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to  Rainton Meadows nature reserve in Wearside, have been rewarded with a wide selection of wading birds, thanks to the dryer than normal conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,440],"tags":[2459,3250,3252,3251,2910,3245,721,2138,3246,2702,3249,2215,3248,499],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-birds","category-featured","tag-durham-wildlife","tag-lapwing","tag-little-ringed-plover","tag-mark-newsome","tag-mark-richardson","tag-muddy-margins","tag-nature-reserve","tag-north-east-england","tag-oystercatcher","tag-ponds","tag-stint","tag-wading-birds","tag-water-levels","tag-wildlife-trust","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}