{"id":1127,"date":"2011-07-06T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2011-07-06T13:45:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:45:16","slug":"hot-hot-holy-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/hot-hot-holy-island","title":{"rendered":"Hot, hot Holy Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Alan, Carole and Mitzi from Seahouses for their Holy Island mini-safari in the sweltering heat.\u00a0 Through the haze over the mudfalts, we could hear the eerie calls of <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> and then a flock flew by.\u00a0 Amongst them we could hear the tittering whistle of a <em><strong>Whimbrel<\/strong><\/em>, and picked the bird out amongst it&#8217;s larger cousins.\u00a0 <strong><em>Golden Plover<\/em><\/strong> were back on the coast already as well; the moorland breeding season is a short one.\u00a0 After a tour of the sites along the North Northumberland coast, we had our final stop, at Harkess Rocks.\u00a0 As we scanned the raft of <em><strong>Eider<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em> in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle one bird stood out from all the rest;\u00a0 the <strong><em>Black Scoter<\/em><\/strong>, first found in April, and still lingering off our coast.\u00a0 What I wouldn&#8217;t give for a nice <em><strong>Surf Scoter<\/strong><\/em> or <em><strong>King Eider<\/strong><\/em> as well:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Alan, Carole and Mitzi from Seahouses for their Holy Island mini-safari in the sweltering heat.\u00a0 Through the haze over the mudfalts, we could hear the eerie calls of Curlew and then a flock flew by.\u00a0 Amongst them we could hear the tittering whistle of a Whimbrel, and picked the bird out amongst it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,3,119,5],"tags":[462,67,172,149,175,478,477,231],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-birdwatching","category-holy-island","category-northumberland","tag-black-scoter","tag-common-scoter","tag-curlew","tag-eider","tag-golden-plover","tag-king-eider","tag-surf-scoter","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","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=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}