{"id":155,"date":"2009-07-09T08:41:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2009-07-09T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T08:41:18","slug":"birdwatching-in-redesdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/uncategorized\/birdwatching-in-redesdale","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatching in Redesdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at the Hareshaw Linn carpark in Bellingham yesterday evening, ready to lead the &#8216;Birds of Redesdale&#8217; walk for Shepherd&#8217;s Walks.  10 walkers, plus myself and Jon, set out to walk along the North Tyne towards Redesmouth and then back to Bellingham across some cattle-filled fields.<\/p>\n<p>Inland birdwatching in early July can be a bit hit-and-miss;  all of the trees are heavily vegetated, adult birds are secretive and (generally) silent.  We found some real gems though; a stunning adult male Redstart sat on a riverside fence post and allowed everyone the chance to appreciate a bird that most people in Britain probably aren&#8217;t aware of the existence of.  Grey Wagtails were flycatching from mid-stream rocks at Redesmouth.  Oystercatchers were, well, what more can you say about these big black-and-white birds with their extraordinary beaks?  Other wildlife found along our route included Silver-ground Carpet, Bird-cherry Ermine and a Meadow Brown, calm and approachable as the cool of the evening replaced the heat of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Once the walk was completed, the journey back to Southeast Northumberland, fortunately, was free of torrential rain and stranded cyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at the Hareshaw Linn carpark in Bellingham yesterday evening, ready to lead the &#8216;Birds of Redesdale&#8217; walk for Shepherd&#8217;s Walks. 10 walkers, plus myself and Jon, set out to walk along the North Tyne towards Redesmouth and then back to Bellingham across some cattle-filled fields. Inland birdwatching in early July can be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}