{"id":10870,"date":"2015-03-23T21:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:32:09","slug":"riders-of-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/riders-of-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"“Riders of the Wind”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 21st March 2015<\/strong>. After a week on Shetland and only I week back in the “land of the living”, I thought I had experienced enough wind to last me at least till the autumn. No such luck. It was blowing a gale today at the RSPB Reserve at Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire Coast. At least the gale\u00a0had stirred-up the sea birds and Gannets were really playing around in the wind, seemingly enjoying themselves, putting on a fantastic show for the cameras. Already plenty of birds back on the chalk cliffs, with many Gannet, Kittiwake, Guillemot, Razorbill, Shag and Fulmar.<\/p>\n

Prior to Bempton we had spent an hour or so at Scarborough with Kittiwake in the harbour, Peregrine and a few Mediterranean Gulls. After several hours at Bempton,\u00a0we moved off in the late afternoon and stopped on our way home via Kelk Beck, near Harpham for another long staying bird, a Black-bellied Dipper<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>This is the Northern (Scandinavian) race of our “Brown-bellied” form. This was only my second Black-bellied Dipper, so it was well worth the visit and very obliging too. Along with a few other year ticks during the day, including Mediterranean Gull at Scarborough, my year list is now on 154.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Black-bellied Dipper<\/strong> – Above three images – Kelk Beck, Harpham, Yorkshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gannet<\/strong> – This pair regularly take-up residence on the top of this rocky crag. Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gannet<\/strong> – Above six images – Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saturday 21st March 2015. After a week on Shetland and only I week back in the “land of the living”, I thought I had experienced enough wind to last me at least till the autumn. No such luck. It was blowing a gale today at the RSPB Reserve at Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire Coast. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdsof2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}