{"id":1677,"date":"2012-06-21T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2012-06-21T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:21:16","slug":"evening-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/evening-trinity","title":{"rendered":"Evening trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=13\" target=\"_blank\">Otter Safari<\/a>\u00a0featured a quite surreal evening, as mist developed over the pools, close to the Northumberland coast,\u00a0really playing tricks on the eyes.\u00a0 As <em><strong>Coots<\/strong> <\/em>scattered and <em><strong>Mallards<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>Mute Swans<\/strong> <\/em>all stared in the same direction, our quarry remained hidden from view.\u00a0 <em><strong>Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> were bounding around the poolside vegetation, and a magnificent <em><strong>Long-eared Owl<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>ghosted silently by.\u00a0 As darkness approached we headed back towards Church Point to drop Erin and Adrian off before taking Christina and Sean back to their respective holiday accommodations.\u00a0 Along the road we came across 2 <em><strong>Barn<\/strong><\/em><strong> Owls<\/strong> and then a <em><strong>Tawny Owl<\/strong><\/em>, sitting on prey in the middle of the road before flying to a nearby fence post and glaring balefully at us.<\/p>\n<p>Three owl species in little over an hour, and Tuesday&#8217;s trip was a bespoke photography outing for Christina to photograph <em><strong>Short-Eared<\/strong><\/em><strong> Owls<\/strong>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll blog about that one tomorrow \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s Otter Safari\u00a0featured a quite surreal evening, as mist developed over the pools, close to the Northumberland coast,\u00a0really playing tricks on the eyes.\u00a0 As Coots scattered and Mallards and Mute Swans all stared in the same direction, our quarry remained hidden from view.\u00a0 Roe Deer were bounding around the poolside vegetation, and a magnificent Long-eared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,141],"tags":[97,270,174,171,178,66,78],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-barn-owl","tag-coot","tag-long-eared-owl","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-roe-deer","tag-tawny-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","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=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}