{"id":164467,"date":"2025-09-27T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164467\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:04:08","slug":"dunston-staiths-is-a-hidden-gem-for-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/164467\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunston Staiths is a &#8216;hidden gem&#8217; for wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of redshanks, with their distinctive bright orange legs, will be among the waders on the mudflats, along with a similar number of lapwing &#8211; which Ms Devey says can be seen for about a month as they pass through on their way to other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The birds have the feet for it, but also the right kind of beaks,&#8221; she explains. &#8220;They use their long bills to get to the richness of life hiding beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve travelled huge distances and spend every winter with us. They&#8217;re really loyal to their nest sites, and their autumn and winter sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This time of year, through to November I&#8217;d say, is a real peak of activity for wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the summer it looks beautiful, but in the autumn, the soundscape is really something.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of redshanks, with their distinctive bright orange legs, will be among the waders on the mudflats, along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-164467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}