{"id":1274,"date":"2011-08-30T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2011-08-30T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T06:45:10","slug":"patience-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/patience-pays-off","title":{"rendered":"Patience pays off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding <em><strong>Red Squirrels<\/strong><\/em> on a Bank Holiday Monday had the potential to be a tricky task.\u00a0 With a good weather forecast, all of our local woodlands were likely to be filled with visitors.\u00a0 I headed up to Alnwick, to collect Tracy, Graham, Eleanor and Joe, before the rush started, and Sarah set off at the same time on a related mission&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By the time\u00a0I arrived at our favourite squirrel site, with a car-load of clients, feeders had been checked and strategic areas baited.\u00a0 <strong><em>Jays, Great Tits<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Woodpigeons<\/em><\/strong> were all in the trees around us, and Eleanor soon picked out the sound of a <strong><em>Red Squirrel<\/em><\/strong> in the canopy high overhead.\u00a0 We waited, patiently and quietly, and then Joe spotted movement along a branch and a <strong><em>Red Squirrel<\/em><\/strong> ran down the trunk of a nearby tree and tucked in to the provided feast.<\/p>\n<p>After our woodland excursion\u00a0a couple of hours of birdwatching in southeast Northumberland and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a>\u00a0produced good sightings of <em><strong>Grey Heron<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Kestrel<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Stock Dove<\/strong><\/em> and a juvenile <em><strong>Mediterranean Gull<\/strong><\/em> in amongst a mass of Black-headed Gulls from a landfill site.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife doesn&#8217;t perform to order, but when you&#8217;ve spent some time concentrating, listening and focusing on every sound and\u00a0every movement there&#8217;s a good feeling when that effort is rewarded \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Red Squirrels on a Bank Holiday Monday had the potential to be a tricky task.\u00a0 With a good weather forecast, all of our local woodlands were likely to be filled with visitors.\u00a0 I headed up to Alnwick, to collect Tracy, Graham, Eleanor and Joe, before the rush started, and Sarah set off at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,19,139],"tags":[271,148,45,283,24,128,193,833,496,158],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-red-squirrel","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-common-buzzard","tag-great-tit","tag-grey-heron","tag-jay","tag-kestrel","tag-mediterranean-gull","tag-red-squirrel","tag-stock-dove","tag-woodpigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}