{"id":1679,"date":"2012-06-22T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T11:36:45","slug":"caught-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/caught-short","title":{"rendered":"Caught short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was Christina&#8217;s second day out with us this week, and we had a very specific target for our afternoon and evening of birdwatching and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=6\" target=\"_blank\">photography<\/a>, luckily I&#8217;d already spent a lot of time this year checking out breeding locations for the species concerned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As the stunning weather illuminated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=12\" target=\"_blank\">North Pennines<\/a> AONB in beautiful light, <em><strong>Mountain Pansies<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Cotton Grass<\/strong><\/em> were gently swaying in the breeze, <em><strong>Curlews<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>Lapwings<\/strong> <\/em>were calling as they traversed the fellsides, <em><strong>Skylarks<\/strong> <\/em>were singing from high overhead, <em><strong>Ring Ouzels<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Mistle Thrushes<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0flitted from tree to boulder to grassy slope and back again, a lone <strong>Woodcock<\/strong> (presumably with a faulty body clock) was roding in bright sunshine and there, on a fence post not 50 metres away was our quarry; stretching, posturing and delivering a haughty stare with piercing yellow eyes, the\u00a0<em><strong>Short-eared Owl<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>sat obligingly as Christina rattled off frame after frame of pin sharp owl portraits.\u00a0 The owl was just one small part of the whole experience, but it was the part that the afternoon had been structured to deliver and it slotted into its appointed place in the vast landscape and soundscape.\u00a0 Our wildlife doesn&#8217;t always perform to plan (and it would be rather dull and predictable if it did!), but when everything comes together perfectly it feels sublime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday was Christina&#8217;s second day out with us this week, and we had a very specific target for our afternoon and evening of birdwatching and photography, luckily I&#8217;d already spent a lot of time this year checking out breeding locations for the species concerned&#8230; As the stunning weather illuminated the North Pennines AONB in beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,5,16],"tags":[553,172,123,146,263,456,191,71],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-pennines","category-northumberland","category-photography","tag-bespoke-photography","tag-curlew","tag-lapwing","tag-mistle-thrush","tag-ring-ouzel","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-skylark","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}