{"id":1197,"date":"2011-08-12T06:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T06:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2011-08-12T06:36:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T06:36:40","slug":"dodging-the-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/dodging-the-showers","title":{"rendered":"Dodging the showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things weren&#8217;t looking too promising as I headed up the A697 to collect Ian and Barbara from their holiday accommodation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachhousecrookham.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Coach House<\/a>; rain, mist and fog were all conspiring to reduce visibility.\u00a0 Once we were on our way towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=11\" target=\"_blank\">Holy Island<\/a> things improved though, and our walk on the island was in reasonable weather.\u00a0 Plenty of <strong><em>Curlew<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Bar-tailed Godwits<\/em><\/strong> were along the water&#8217;s edge and little parties of <strong><em>Guillemot<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Red-breasted Merganser<\/em><\/strong> were spotted on the relatively calm sea.\u00a0 Back on the mainland, things took a turn for the worse and the rain hammered down, making the mudflats seem to be boiling.\u00a0 The numbers of <strong><em>Curlew<\/em><\/strong> grew and grew, all demonstrating just how vigorous their feeding technique is.\u00a0 As everything began to disappear into the rain, the eerie calls of <strong><em>Grey Seals<\/em><\/strong> came echoing across the mud.\u00a0 <strong><em>Eider, Common Scoter, Puffin, Shag, Cormorant, Guillemot <\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em>\u00a0Razorbill<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 were all on the sea in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle,\u00a0<strong><em>Turnstones<\/em><\/strong> were doing just what their name suggests,\u00a02 <strong><em>Little Egrets<\/em><\/strong> were in Budle Bay and 3 <strong><em>Common Buzzards<\/em><\/strong> were soaring around as the sun finally began to beat down on the northern edge of the Cheviots as we returned to Crookham at the end of a day of changeable weather, and good birdwatching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things weren&#8217;t looking too promising as I headed up the A697 to collect Ian and Barbara from their holiday accommodation at The Coach House; rain, mist and fog were all conspiring to reduce visibility.\u00a0 Once we were on our way towards Holy Island things improved though, and our walk on the island was in reasonable [&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":[147,148,67,372,172,835,186,243,492,226,188,377,359],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-birdwatching","category-holy-island","category-northumberland","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-common-buzzard","tag-common-scoter","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-little-egret","tag-puffin-eider","tag-razorbill","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-shag","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","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=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}