{"id":1661,"date":"2012-06-12T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:41:56","slug":"one-good-tern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/one-good-tern","title":{"rendered":"One good tern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was another day for returning clients,   as I collected Louise from her holiday accommodation at Brockmill farmhouse for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=6\" target=\"_blank\">bespoke photography<\/a> trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=14\" target=\"_blank\">Farne Islands<\/a>.\u00a0 We began,   as most of our Farne Islands trips do,   with a visit to\u00a0a mainland\u00a0tern colony.\u00a0 As happens so often, the <em><strong>Little Tern<\/strong><\/em> colony had been washed out by a very high tide &#8211; with all 42 pairs having abandoned their nests.\u00a0 The 250 pairs of <em><strong>Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> was also a long way below the number that had been there, with the tides having washed away the majority of that colony as well.\u00a0 Lots of the <em><strong>Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> were displaying, so they may well manage to re-lay.<\/p>\n<p>The Farne Islands, once we arrived on Inner Farne following our journey on Glad Tidings, were as spectacular as ever.\u00a0 <em><strong>Guillemots, Puffins, Razorbills, Shags, Kittiwakes<\/strong><\/em> and the <em><strong>terns<\/strong><\/em> offered up many photographic opportunities and it was great to enjoy all of that with a client whose views on photo agencies, camera equipment and manufacturers are always entertaining.\u00a0 As we stood above lighthouse cliff on Inner Farne, the weather began to change &#8211; and not for the better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was another day for returning clients, as I collected Louise from her holiday accommodation at Brockmill farmhouse for a bespoke photography trip to the Farne Islands.\u00a0 We began, as most of our Farne Islands trips do, with a visit to\u00a0a mainland\u00a0tern colony.\u00a0 As happens so often, the Little Tern colony had been washed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,5,16],"tags":[230,835,186,301,476,225,226,377],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-farnes","category-northumberland","category-photography","tag-arctic-tern","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-kittiwake","tag-little-tern","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-shag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","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=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}