{"id":1350,"date":"2011-10-17T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2011-10-17T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T10:10:02","slug":"beginners-birdwatching-161011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/beginners-birdwatching-161011","title":{"rendered":"Beginner&#8217;s Birdwatching 16\/10\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Ruth and Margaret from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theswanchoppington.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Swan<\/a> for their second trip with us; this time a half-day Beginner&#8217;s Birdwatching trip around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay <\/a>and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 After scouring some bushes where we could hear a roving tit flock, and enjoying excellent views of a flock of <em><strong>Tree Sparrows<\/strong><\/em> in the beautiful sunshine, we visited Hadston Scaurs in search of the <em><strong>Yellow-browed Warbler<\/strong><\/em> that had been seen there earlier in the morning.\u00a0 We were unlucky, although we could hear the flock of <strong><em>Goldcrests<\/em><\/strong> that it had been with but they were deep in the hedge and we only had occasional brief views as they hurried about.\u00a0 <strong><em>Reed Buntings, Dunnocks, Blackbirds <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Bullfinches<\/em><\/strong> all performed well, <em><strong>Robins<\/strong><\/em> were calling from what seemed to be every bush, <em><strong>Linnets<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Skylarks<\/strong><\/em> were moving south overhead and skeins of <strong><em>Pink-footed Geese<\/em><\/strong> passed over.<\/p>\n<p>We had a session looking at shapes of <strong><em>ducks<\/em><\/strong>, and how to use that skill to separate similar species, and finished at Cresswell with a species that Margaret was really keen to see on this trip, <strong><em>Eider;<\/em><\/strong> our county bird, and a real stunner \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Ruth and Margaret from The Swan for their second trip with us; this time a half-day Beginner&#8217;s Birdwatching trip around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 After scouring some bushes where we could hear a roving tit flock, and enjoying excellent views of a flock of Tree Sparrows in the beautiful sunshine, we visited [&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":[133,27,159,149,135,140,392,127,116,191,125,403],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-blackbird","tag-bullfinch","tag-dunnock","tag-eider","tag-goldcrest","tag-linnet","tag-pink-footed-geese","tag-reed-bunting","tag-robin","tag-skylark","tag-tree-sparrow","tag-yellow-browed-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","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=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}