{"id":1037,"date":"2011-05-19T08:48:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T08:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2011-05-19T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T08:51:43","slug":"making-the-best-of-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/making-the-best-of-the-weather","title":{"rendered":"Making the best of the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We put a lot of effort into finding locations for species that our clients are keen to photograph and\u00a0we can apply decades of experience and fieldcraft&#8230;but we can&#8217;t control the weather.\u00a0 As we\u00a0left the lowland coastal strip of Northumberland on Sunday, gaining altitude in\u00a0a search for <em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> at some of our favoured spots in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=12\" target=\"_blank\">North Pennines<\/a>, the rain started to patter on the car windows.\u00a0 As the wind strengthened, and the pattering turned to a shower, this added another factor to our considerations; 1) find birds, 2) position vehicle so that a) client has a clear shot and b) lighting angle is good, were joined by c) rain isn&#8217;t drenching client \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 With all of those achieved it just remained for Arthur to fill his memory cards with those species that the North Pennines produces such close views of; <strong><em>Black Grouse<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Red Grouse <\/em><\/strong>(with chicks), <strong><em>Curlew<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Common Snipe<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Lapwing<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Golden Plover<\/em><\/strong> (with chicks) and <strong><em>Short-eared Owl<\/em><\/strong> being the stars of the day.\u00a0 As we drove a steep remote road towards Weardale we even had excellent, and close, views of the often elusive <strong><em>Greyhen<\/em><\/strong>, and throughout the day we found several groups of <strong><em>Blackcock <\/em><\/strong>(including 7 in one field).\u00a0 To be honest, if we could control the weather&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure we would \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We put a lot of effort into finding locations for species that our clients are keen to photograph and\u00a0we can apply decades of experience and fieldcraft&#8230;but we can&#8217;t control the weather.\u00a0 As we\u00a0left the lowland coastal strip of Northumberland on Sunday, gaining altitude in\u00a0a search for Black Grouse at some of our favoured spots in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,16],"tags":[54,373,172,175,123,208,456],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennines","category-northumberland","category-photography","tag-black-grouse","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-lapwing","tag-red-grouse","tag-short-eared-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","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=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}