{"id":1681,"date":"2012-06-26T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2012-06-26T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T07:34:00","slug":"farne-islands-20062012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/farne-islands-20062012","title":{"rendered":"Farne Islands 20\/06\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Farne Islands<\/a> Safari last Wednesday continued the theme of returning clients; Christina was on her third successive day out with us (and fifth in total), Barry and Maureen were back again after an Otter Safari<\/a> in 2010 and Rob and Lesley were with us for the first time (but have another trip booked for September).<\/p>\n

I’ve visited the Farne Islands countless times over the years, and it’s still as magical an experience as it was the first time.\u00a0 As the boat pulls out of Seahouses harbour, and you can see the islands on the horizon, the pulse starts to quicken.\u00a0 Soon you’re sailing through rafts of Shags, Puffins, Guillemots <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Razorbills<\/strong>, birds are racing by with beaks filled with fish and then the characteristic smell of a seabird colony hits you, Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> are bobbing up and down in the water and the nesting cliffs tower overhead.\u00a0 Once you’re on the islands the real experience is the aggressive nest defence by the Arctic<\/strong> Terns.<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>It always amazes me how many visitors to the islands seem either unprepared, or simply unaware, of what’s waiting for them once they get off the boat \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

What made Wednesday so special though was the weather.\u00a0 The sea was mirror-calm and once we were on the islands conditions were stunning.\u00a0 It was a real privilege to be there with a group of clients, to experience the delights of a seabird colony with them, and to be able to appreciate the wider landscape of Northumberland from that offshore position.\u00a0 It was\u00a0interesting to see everyone taking their own approach to enjoying the experience; having a good walk around and looking at everything…finding a quiet\u00a0place to sit and savouring the whole experience from that spot…concentrating one that one seabird species that’s missing from the photo archive.<\/p>\n

Whether I’m leading a ‘normal’ Safari Day, or working with photography<\/a> clients, we\u00a0always hope\u00a0for the sort of weather that last week delivered \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Farne Islands Safari last Wednesday continued the theme of returning clients; Christina was on her third successive day out with us (and fifth in total), Barry and Maureen were back again after an Otter Safari in 2010 and Rob and Lesley were with us for the first time (but have another trip booked for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,5,141],"tags":[230,835,186,225,226,377],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-farnes","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-arctic-tern","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-shag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","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=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}