{"id":1734,"date":"2012-08-03T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T07:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T07:34:40","slug":"against-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/against-the-light","title":{"rendered":"Against the light"},"content":{"rendered":"

In near-perfect conditions we arrived at Seahouses yesterday evening for our 3hr coastal cruise on Ocean Explorer<\/em>.\u00a0 As well as some of our ‘regulars’ we had Andy, Jan and Sam on board, on their final evening in Northumberland.<\/p>\n

Soon after heading south down the coast towards Dunstanburgh we came across a couple of\u00a0Harbour Porpoises.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>Typically shy, they surfaced a few times and then vanished into the depths.\u00a0 Gannets<\/em> <\/strong>featured throughout the evening, passing both north and south, and one or two were seen diving.\u00a0 Puffins, Guillemots<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>and Razorbills<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>were bobbing about on the water and a mixed flock of Arctic <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Common Terns <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Kittiwakes<\/strong> <\/em>had found something to hold their interest.\u00a0 We stopped to see if anything else would come along, and were soon joined by a Fulmar,<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>stunning in the beautiful light.<\/p>\n

\"Fulmar,bird<\/a><\/p>\n

We gradually headed north, and approached the Farne Islands as the sun began to set.\u00a0 Grey<\/strong> Seals<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>poked their heads out of the water and came off the rocks to investigate our boat, Cormorants<\/strong> <\/em>and Shags<\/strong> <\/em>perched sentinel-like on the rocky islets, Turnstones<\/strong> <\/em>prodded and poked their way around the edge of the mass of Seals<\/em> <\/strong>and Sam punched the air in elation as his first Curlew<\/strong> <\/em>flew by \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 The setting sun provided an opportunity to experiment with an aspect of photography that I’ve never really been able to get to grips with, and one which I’ve always been fairly ambivalent about.\u00a0 Excellent light, excellent location, all the ingredients were there to convince me…<\/p>\n

\"Farne<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Farne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In near-perfect conditions we arrived at Seahouses yesterday evening for our 3hr coastal cruise on Ocean Explorer.\u00a0 As well as some of our ‘regulars’ we had Andy, Jan and Sam on board, on their final evening in Northumberland. Soon after heading south down the coast towards Dunstanburgh we came across a couple of\u00a0Harbour Porpoises.\u00a0 Typically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,105,5,141],"tags":[230,229,372,172,122,185,835,186,240,301,225,226,377,359],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-farnes","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-arctic-tern","tag-common-tern","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-harbour-porpoise","tag-kittiwake","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-shag","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}