{"id":112,"date":"2009-03-31T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2012-04-16T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T03:54:10","slug":"when-the-clocks-go-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/uncategorized\/when-the-clocks-go-forward","title":{"rendered":"When the clocks go forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having left home early on Friday morning, and spent 3 days working on the Outdoor Northumberland stand at the Ordnance Survey Outdoor Show<\/a>, I returned to Northumberland late Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

I spent yesterday helping to lead a nature tourism workshop in Teesside. As well as visiting a few small nature reserves that I wasn’t familiar with, we had a walk around the new RSPB reserve at Saltholme. That’s a site I did already know, having visited regularly since the mid-90’s. Highlight of the day for me though was the Teesmouth NNR. Dunes, grassland and the estuary mouth, all set against a background of heavy industry and the infamous ‘ghost ships’. Three Little Egrets and four Avocets around Greatham Creek gave the area a slightly more southerly feel than Northumberland.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, the current fine weather has coincided with the advent of BST. We went for a walk around Choppington Woods this evening. Chiffchaffs were singing, woodpeckers were drumming, Siskins were song-flighting and it was so warm and bright that we didn’t need hats, coats or gloves – at 7pm!<\/p>\n

So, Birmingham (to talk about Northumberland), Teesside (to talk about nature tourism) and Choppington Woods (talking about Red Squirrels with one of the local dog walkers). There’s nowhere quite like home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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