Well, a day and a half really…<\/p>\n
On Sunday I collected Helen from her parent’s house in Swarland and we crossed the causeway onto Holy Island<\/a>.\u00a0 A good walk around the island provided excellent views of Wheatears<\/strong><\/em>, displaying Lapwings<\/strong><\/em>, a cacophony of Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> and a very\u00a0inquisitive Stoat<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Helen spotted it and, once it ducked out of sight, I enticed it back out by pishing.\u00a0 Thrift<\/em><\/strong> and Bladder Campion<\/em><\/strong> were both in bloom and, once we were back on the mainland, we enjoyed a Whitethroat<\/em><\/strong> as it song-flighted from tree to tree.<\/p>\n Our final port of call was Stag Rocks.\u00a0 A\u00a0scan seemed to reveal little other than a raft of Eiders<\/strong><\/em> but there, amongst the black-and-white ‘Cuddy Ducks’ was a smaller dark bird; the vagrant Black Scoter<\/em><\/strong>, still there and still applying his transatlantic affections to a female Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s wildlife walk was slightly different.\u00a0 I met up with Jude and her parents at the Beal Road end car park and we drove across the causeway.\u00a0 48 hours after our previous Lindisfarne trip, and the Wheatears <\/strong><\/em>had moved on.\u00a0 A\u00a0recent arrival though, was a Sedge Warbler<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Skylarks<\/em><\/strong> provided a continuous backdrop to our walk and a pair of Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> were bounding through the fields, leaping fences and apparently keeping an eye on us.\u00a0 4 hours passed quickly and it was time to head home…and get ready for\u00a0Wednesday’s Kielder <\/a>Safari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, a day and a half really… On Sunday I collected Helen from her parent’s house in Swarland and we crossed the causeway onto Holy Island.\u00a0 A good walk around the island provided excellent views of Wheatears, displaying Lapwings, a cacophony of Grey Seals and a very\u00a0inquisitive Stoat.\u00a0 Helen spotted it and, once it ducked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,119,5],"tags":[462,468,67,149,835,123,66,227,183,469,235,234],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-farnes","category-holy-island","category-northumberland","tag-black-scoter","tag-bladder-campion","tag-common-scoter","tag-eider","tag-grey-seal","tag-lapwing","tag-roe-deer","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-stoat","tag-thrift","tag-wheatear","tag-whitethroat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}