{"id":1043,"date":"2011-05-19T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:52:53","slug":"border-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/border-patrol","title":{"rendered":"Border patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a day on the coast, yesterday brought something completely different as I headed towards Whitelee Farm<\/a> and Byrness to collect\u00a0John and Natalie, and then\u00a0Bert, for a Kielder Safari<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we drove along a remote track through the forest, we came across some of the wildlife that makes Kielder such a special place; Roe Deer<\/em><\/strong> trotted across the track ahead of us, family parties of\u00a0Common Crossbills <\/em><\/strong>were adorning the tops of spuce trees like christmas decorations, a Red Squirrel<\/em><\/strong> eyeballed us from halfway up a tree, <\/em><\/strong>a Common Buzzard<\/em><\/strong> tolerated a closer approach than usual, but not for long,\u00a0 and a pair of Wheatears<\/strong><\/em> watched as we passed by.<\/p>\n

North of the border we were entertained by several pairs of Whinchat <\/strong><\/em>(surely one of the most attractive birds we have in Britain), including a male who started singing from his perch just a few metres away,\u00a0a Dipper <\/strong><\/em>that was whizzing up and down the stream where we sat to have our lunch, a Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> playing hide-and-seek with us in the heather and the\u00a0elegant beauty of a male Hen Harrier<\/strong><\/em>, still retaining his grace as he battled into the howling gale that made our hot soup at lunchtime all the better.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s the remoteness, the landscape, the species that you rarely, if ever, find elsewhere or just the lack of other people; our inland locations – Kielder<\/a>, the Cheviot Valleys<\/a> and the North Pennines<\/a>\u00a0always produce memorable birdwatching experiences, for our clients and for ourselves as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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