{"id":1572,"date":"2012-05-01T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2012-05-01T06:34:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:34:39","slug":"enthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/enthusiasm","title":{"rendered":"Enthusiasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Druridge mini-Safari with Karl and Linda featured some of those species that are at or near their northern limit in Britain; <em><strong>Avocets<\/strong><\/em>, a recent colonist of Northumberland, and <em><strong>Marsh Harriers<\/strong><\/em>, here for a few years longer, are always much appreciated and Newbiggin&#8217;s <em><strong>Mediterranean Gulls<\/strong><\/em> are an excellent example of a group of birds that is often overlooked or simply ignored by many.\u00a0 Some of our commoner species go down well; <em><strong>Grey Heron, Curlew<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and <em><strong>Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> always get plenty of attention and <em><strong>Wigeon, Shelduck, Mallard, Red-breasted <\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>erganser, Goldeneye, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Great Crested Grebe<\/strong><\/em> all have their own attraction too.<\/p>\n<p>What I really enjoy about our trips\u00a0is enthusiastic clients.\u00a0 So long as we keep getting them, and Karl and Linda were no exception, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever get jaded, no matter how much time I spend in the field.\u00a0 A couple of frequent questions from our clients are &#8216;what do you do on your days off?&#8217; and &#8216;what do you do when you&#8217;re away on holiday?&#8217;\u00a0 For some reason, they never seem surprised when I give them the answer \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Druridge mini-Safari with Karl and Linda featured some of those species that are at or near their northern limit in Britain; Avocets, a recent colonist of Northumberland, and Marsh Harriers, here for a few years longer, are always much appreciated and Newbiggin&#8217;s Mediterranean Gulls are an excellent example of a group of birds that [&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],"tags":[40,372,172,170,168,488,283,171,397,193,188,189,169,181],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","tag-avocet","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-grey-heron","tag-mallard","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-mediterranean-gull","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-shelduck","tag-teal","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}