{"id":1270,"date":"2011-08-26T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2011-08-26T14:01:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:01:33","slug":"if-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/if-at-first","title":{"rendered":"If at first&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a feeling of deja vu just after the Bird Fair, when Alex and Richard joined us for\u00a0a Prestige Tour on Richard&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 My brief was the same as last year; birdwatching, photography and <strong><em>Otters<\/em><\/strong>, and I had no doubt that it was going to be a real pleasure.\u00a0 Last year the <strong><em>Otters<\/em><\/strong> eluded us, but we&#8217;ve found new sites since then, and changed the route, and timings,\u00a0of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=13\" target=\"_blank\">Otter Safaris<\/a> to take that into account.\u00a0 A very obliging <strong><em>Grey Heron<\/em><\/strong> allowed\u00a0consideration of composition&#8230;and why you shouldn&#8217;t set your camera to one of it&#8217;s pre-programmed modes \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 A <strong><em>Common Snipe<\/em><\/strong> was a good subject to investigate why autofocus may sometimes be inferior to manual focus, and a very heavy shower produced a degree of contrast between sky and water that illustrated our discussions about camera metering systems.<\/p>\n<p>Small groups of <em><strong>Whimbrel<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> were heading south, and we set ourselves close to one of our regular <strong><em>Otter<\/em><\/strong> sites as the day wore on.\u00a0 All of the wildfowl started heading in one direction&#8230;away from the <strong><em>Otter<\/em><\/strong> that was making its way menacingly across the water \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It vanished into the reeds, then reappeared before sliding away into the darkness again; leaving behind lots of terrified ducks, 2 very happy clients and a relieved guide \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a feeling of deja vu just after the Bird Fair, when Alex and Richard joined us for\u00a0a Prestige Tour on Richard&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 My brief was the same as last year; birdwatching, photography and Otters, and I had no doubt that it was going to be a real pleasure.\u00a0 Last year the Otters eluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,21,139],"tags":[250,175,283,837,223,231],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-otter","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-common-pipistrelle","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-heron","tag-otter","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}