{"id":1160,"date":"2011-07-29T09:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T09:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2011-07-29T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:54:14","slug":"burning-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/burning-desire","title":{"rendered":"Burning desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, and I&#8217;m sitting with Matt\u00a0and Becky, waiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=13\" target=\"_blank\">in anticipation<\/a> as dusk approaches.\u00a0 An\u00a0orange\/yellow glow rimming the horizon and the pallid, diffuse nature of the clouds covering the rest of the sky enhancing the impression that a thousand fires were burning in the distance.\u00a0\u00a0Through the flames, dark ashes danced across our field of view; <em><strong>Tufted Ducks<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Mallards<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Coots <\/strong><\/em>skittering across the water.\u00a0 Against the smoke, more dark soot tossed on the strong northerly breeze, this time <strong><em>Noctule Bats<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Pipistrelles<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then a burst of excitement as a whirling dervish appears, chasing ducks and geese; the <em><strong>Otter <\/strong><\/em>porpoising with serious intent, hitting the water with a splash like the crackle of a burning log.\u00a0 Then the flames die and we&#8217;re left with the last few pops of the dying embers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, and I&#8217;m sitting with Matt\u00a0and Becky, waiting in anticipation as dusk approaches.\u00a0 An\u00a0orange\/yellow glow rimming the horizon and the pallid, diffuse nature of the clouds covering the rest of the sky enhancing the impression that a thousand fires were burning in the distance.\u00a0\u00a0Through the flames, dark ashes danced across our field of view; Tufted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,18],"tags":[60,837,292],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northumberland","category-otter","category-wildlife","tag-noctule-bat","tag-otter","tag-pipistrelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","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=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}