{"id":114,"date":"2009-04-03T08:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-04-03T08:08:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:08:14","slug":"a-sense-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/uncategorized\/a-sense-of-place","title":{"rendered":"A SENSE of place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northumberland Wildlife Trusts&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwt.org.uk\/index.php?section=news&#038;id=2177\">SENSE<\/a> (South East Northumberland Sustainable Environment) project is about to add Choppington Woods to the list of reserves it covers so yesterday I took NWT People and Wildlife Officer Heather O&#8217;Neill for a walk around the wood.  The glorious weather really shows the reserve at its best.  Chiffchaffs, Blackbirds, Song Thrushes and Robins could be heard singing throughout the entire 2 hours that we were walking, 4 Jays flew over together and Siskins were much more widespread than in previous years. Frogs and toads were around the edge of the pond and a carpet of wildflowers sparkled like jewels in the bright sunshine.  It&#8217;s sometimes hard to believe that the area was once the site of 2 coal mines.  Now, with the help of SENSE (and the \u00c2\u00a310k we were awarded by Wansbeck -You Decide) we can work towards our aim of making Choppington Woods an outstanding community resource; reflecting the area&#8217;s industrial heritage and leaving an environmental legacy for future generations.  That&#8217;s quite something to have outside your office window \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northumberland Wildlife Trusts&#8217;s SENSE (South East Northumberland Sustainable Environment) project is about to add Choppington Woods to the list of reserves it covers so yesterday I took NWT People and Wildlife Officer Heather O&#8217;Neill for a walk around the wood. The glorious weather really shows the reserve at its best. Chiffchaffs, Blackbirds, Song Thrushes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}