{"id":1451,"date":"2012-02-06T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-02-07T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T09:29:31","slug":"owl-prowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/owl-prowl","title":{"rendered":"Owl prowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/owl-prowl\/attachment\/20120205-_dsc1246-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1452\" title=\"Short-eared Owl [Asio flammeus], Cresswell, Northumberland 05\/02\/2012 (c)Martin Kitching\/www.northernexperienceimages.co.uk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1246-2.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared Owl,Asio flammeus,Northumberland,bird photography courses\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1246-2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1246-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has been an excellent winter for <em><strong>Short-eared Owls<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in Northumberland; from watching\u00a0one making\u00a0it&#8217;s way landward on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/rough\" target=\"_blank\">a\u00a0trip\u00a0in late October<\/a>, a lone bird at an inland roost site on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/winter-wonderland-281111-011211\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Wonderland<\/a> holiday in late November and\u00a0a peak of\u00a07 different birds in one afternoon when we were bird-racing in early January &#8211; they&#8217;ve been an almost constant feature of our birdwatching for the last 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>The one drawback though, is that surgery on my knee in early December (and the deteriorating condition of my knee before then) has prevented me from really getting out and about with my camera.\u00a0 Then, after a 4.5 mile walk along the beach from Cresswell to Druridge and back\u00a0on Saturday (to test out the resilience and stamina of my knee), we decided to head out with the camera yesterday afternoon and see what we could find.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/owl-prowl\/attachment\/20120205-_dsc1230\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1453\" title=\"Short-eared Owl [Asio flammeus], Cresswell, Northumberland 05\/02\/2012 (c)Martin Kitching\/www.northernexperienceimages.co.uk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1230.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared Owl,Asio flammeus,Northumberland,bird photography courses,wildife photography courses\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1230.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1230-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarah&#8217;s sharp eyes spotted the bird of the afternoon before I did and,\u00a0after months of frustration, I focused on a <em><strong>Short-eared Owl<\/strong><\/em> perched on a fence post in the beautiful light that seems to\u00a0characterise winter afternoons in Northumberland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/owl-prowl\/attachment\/20120205-_dsc1246-3-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1466\" title=\"Short-eared Owl [Asio flammeus], Cresswell, Northumberland 05\/02\/2012 (c)Martin Kitching\/www.northernexperienceimages.co.uk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1246-3.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared Owl,Asio otus,Northumberland,bird photography courses,wildlife photography courses\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1246-3.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120205-_DSC1246-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been an excellent winter for Short-eared Owls\u00a0in Northumberland; from watching\u00a0one making\u00a0it&#8217;s way landward on a\u00a0trip\u00a0in late October, a lone bird at an inland roost site on our Winter Wonderland holiday in late November and\u00a0a peak of\u00a07 different birds in one afternoon when we were bird-racing in early January &#8211; they&#8217;ve been an almost [&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":[456],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-short-eared-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}