{"id":1272,"date":"2011-08-26T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2011-08-26T14:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:20:18","slug":"crossing-the-causeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/crossing-the-causeway","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the causeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what appeared to be worsening weather, I drove north to Bamburgh to collect Lyndsey and Petter for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=11\" target=\"_blank\">Lindisfarne Safari<\/a>&#8230;and then things improved dramatically, with warm sunshine tempered by a cool southerly breeze \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We started in the shadow of <strong>Bamburgh Castle<\/strong>, with <strong><em>Common Eider<\/em><\/strong> on the water, <strong><em>Turnstones<\/em><\/strong> on the rocks\u00a0and <em><strong>Sandwich Terns<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Gannets<\/strong><\/em> fishing just offshore.\u00a0 A stop at Budle Bay revealed a <em><strong>Greenshank<\/strong><\/em> amongst the masses of roosting <em><strong>Redshank<\/strong><\/em> and we continued to <strong>Holy Island<\/strong> itself.\u00a0 Waders continued to be the theme of the afternoon, with <em><strong>Ringed Plover<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Dunlin<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> all either roosting or feeding on the mudflats close by and <em><strong>Whimbrel<\/strong><\/em> calling as they passed through.\u00a0 As the tide fell, <strong><em>Grey Seals<\/em><\/strong> could be seen hauling themselves out of the water, &#8216;bottling&#8217; in the afternoon warmth, swimming along with a remarkable turn of pace for such big animals, and splashing around like kids in a paddling pool.<\/p>\n<p>Late August, sunny weather, masses of visitors on <strong>Holy Island<\/strong>&#8230;and the wildlife is still as good as ever \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what appeared to be worsening weather, I drove north to Bamburgh to collect Lyndsey and Petter for their Lindisfarne Safari&#8230;and then things improved dramatically, with warm sunshine tempered by a cool southerly breeze \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We started in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle, with Common Eider on the water, Turnstones on the rocks\u00a0and Sandwich Terns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,3,11,119,5],"tags":[221,172,288,185,175,332,835,123,358,224,223,359,231],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-birdwatching","category-farnes","category-holy-island","category-northumberland","tag-common-eider","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-gannet","tag-golden-plover","tag-greenshank","tag-grey-seal","tag-lapwing","tag-redshank","tag-ringed-plover","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-turnstone","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}