{"id":1343,"date":"2011-10-10T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:15:13","slug":"flight-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/flight-calls","title":{"rendered":"Flight calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Brian from Newbiggin on Saturday for a one-to-one photography afternoon around southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 It was good to find a photographer with\u00a0the mantra of &#8216;wait, watch, wait some more&#8217; and we settled among the trees in a dappled woodland.\u00a0 <em><strong>Nuthatch<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Treecreeper<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/strong><\/em> all entertained us, <em><strong>Jays<\/strong><\/em> were chasing through the trees and <em><strong>Redwings<\/strong><\/em> passed overhead, their &#8216;seee&#8217; calls still resonate deep inside me, nearly 40 years since I first heard them over our school field and then found a bundle of soft feathers where one had fallen prey to the local\u00a0<em><strong>Kestrel<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We had a brief spell of reasonable light, but the afternoon was mainly characterised by drizzle and gloom; not ideal for photography, but an atmospheric background for the birds that were moving about pre-roost.\u00a0 Then, more calls from the skies as we sat close to a small pond.\u00a0 First, <strong><em>Pink-footed Geese<\/em><\/strong>, yapping distantly before coming into view like a distant swirl of smoke as they headed to roost.\u00a0 Then a group of 8 <em><strong>Whooper Swans<\/strong><\/em>, heading north.\u00a0 As they vanished into the gloom, the rain increased and brought dusk forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Brian from Newbiggin on Saturday for a one-to-one photography afternoon around southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 It was good to find a photographer with\u00a0the mantra of &#8216;wait, watch, wait some more&#8217; and we settled among the trees in a dappled woodland.\u00a0 Nuthatch, Treecreeper and Great Spotted Woodpecker all entertained us, Jays were chasing through the trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,139],"tags":[25,24,128,300,129,22,338,130],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-jay","tag-kestrel","tag-nuthatch","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-redwing","tag-treecreeper","tag-whooper-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}