{"id":15792,"date":"2010-04-24T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/flood-gates-open\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:46:00","slug":"flood-gates-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/flood-gates-open.php","title":{"rendered":"Flood gates open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_TFqVhgLh3mA\/S9KiUtF1InI\/AAAAAAAAAzk\/Vu6kDOE-GvA\/s1600\/gr-wheatear-1-farne-10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/df793_gr-wheatear-1-farne-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> Wheatears on the move<\/div><div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_TFqVhgLh3mA\/S9KiEb1sJKI\/AAAAAAAAAzc\/zljrbnBQ1HY\/s1600\/willow-warbler-1-farne-10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/df793_willow-warbler-1-farne-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> Willow Warblers arrive in good numbers<\/div><div align=\"left\"> <\/div><div align=\"left\"><strong>Friday 23rd April comments<\/strong>:<\/div><div align=\"left\"><\/div><div align=\"justify\">Move aside seabirds, it was the turn of the summer migrants as the day proved fruitful and somewhat unexpected. Following a series of &lsquo;blocking&rsquo; northerly airflow's, the wind eased and switched directions and in they came. First a few Willow Warblers, then more, followed by a scattering of Wheatears with a reasonable supporting cast. The islands had livened up (not that they need livening up!) with singing Willow Warblers although a late Redwing reminded us that we had only just said goodbye to winter.<p>The seabirds continue to settle with ever increasing Sandwich Terns (up to 380 now) whilst our old friend; the Arctic Tern has finally arrived, as six were seen over Inner Farne. It won&rsquo;t be long before they are pecking our heads again, and I can&rsquo;t wait&hellip;honest.<\/p><\/div><div align=\"justify\"><\/div><div align=\"justify\"><strong>Highlights<\/strong>: Pink-footed Goose 60N, Greylag Goose 1N, Red-throated Diver 12N, Red-breasted Merganser 7N, Teal 5N, Common Scoter 80 Inner Sound, Shelduck 7N, Swallow 25N, Sand Martin 10N, Wheatear 18, Blackbird 2, Redwing (late), Dunnock 2, Willow Warbler 28, Chiffchaff 2 and Blackcap 2.  <\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72783_913034329739494798-3369431440555702333?l=farnephoto.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheatears on the move Willow Warblers arrive in good numbers Friday 23rd April comments:Move aside seabirds, it was the turn of the summer migrants as the day proved fruitful and somewhat unexpected. Following a series of &lsquo;blocking&rsquo; northerly airflow's, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/flood-gates-open.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}