{"id":1321,"date":"2011-09-19T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:04:48","slug":"heron-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/heron-aid","title":{"rendered":"Heron aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our 3rd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a>\/southeast Northumberland trip in 5 days began with an old friend as\u00a0our regular <strong><em>Little Owl<\/em><\/strong> sat sleepily in the sunshine, only opening an eye to check who we were before nodding off again.\u00a0 Further north, we watched a flock of 59 <strong><em>Pink-footed Geese<\/em><\/strong> as they headed south high overhead.\u00a0 3 <strong><em>Grey Herons<\/em><\/strong> flew south past us, then north over Warkworth before heading south again.\u00a0 Incredibly. later in the afternoon, the same 3 <em><strong>herons<\/strong><\/em> flew south overhead at\u00a0East Chevington, followed soon after by another 4, and we found another\u00a03 sitting in a recently mown field near Hauxley.\u00a0 East Chevington also produced a good flock of <em><strong>Lapwing<\/strong><\/em>, with several <em><strong>Ruff<\/strong><\/em> scattered amongst them, and Cresswell held a\u00a0flock of <em><strong>Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> with a <em><strong>Little Stint<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As sunset approached we settled to the waiting game of quiet observation by a small pool.\u00a0 <em><strong>Tawny Owls<\/strong><\/em> called nearby, a <em><strong>Buzzard<\/strong><\/em> was perched obligingly in the open, a <em><strong>Sparrowhawk<\/strong><\/em> was hedge-hopping to see what it could scare up for dinner, <em><strong>Jackdaws<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Rooks<\/strong><\/em> were gathering noisily before going to roost\u00a0and there was a notable level of panic and a high level of alertness in the assembled <em><strong>ducks<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The cause of the panic didn&#8217;t show itself though, and we walked back to the car with <em><strong>Common Pipistrelles<\/strong><\/em> flying just above our heads before I returned Tamasin and Daniel to Newbiggin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 3rd Druridge Bay\/southeast Northumberland trip in 5 days began with an old friend as\u00a0our regular Little Owl sat sleepily in the sunshine, only opening an eye to check who we were before nodding off again.\u00a0 Further north, we watched a flock of 59 Pink-footed Geese as they headed south high overhead.\u00a0 3 Grey Herons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,139],"tags":[148,250,288,283,382,123,386,392,383,241,131,78],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-common-buzzard","tag-common-pipistrelle","tag-dunlin","tag-grey-heron","tag-jackdaw","tag-lapwing","tag-little-stint","tag-pink-footed-geese","tag-rook","tag-ruff","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-tawny-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}