{"id":1747,"date":"2012-08-15T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2012-08-15T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:36:48","slug":"druridge-bay-080812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/druridge-bay-080812","title":{"rendered":"Druridge Bay 08\/08\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

In very summery weather I arrived at Newton to collect Yvonne, Mark and Marie.\u00a0 Sunglasses and sun cream were the order of the day and we headed down to Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Family trips are always a bit of an unknown, but having a sharp-eyed 10 year old on her first visit to Northumberland really helped \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’ve pondered a great deal over the last few years on what it is about wildlife that can really grip the imagination and attention of the younger generations and I’m still not certain that I really have the answer.\u00a0 In fact, there probably isn’t one simple answer.\u00a0 I’ve been involved with mini-beasting sessions with our local First School and seen children get really enthused about slugs<\/strong><\/em> (not my own personal favourite…), I’ve seen teenagers get excited about bats<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>, owls, Otters<\/strong><\/em> and beetles<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>but, one thing is almost always true…and that’s that ‘cute’ is good \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I’m in my mid-40s, I could be cynical and jaded, but ‘cute’ still works for me too.\u00a0 And cute was 3 Avocet<\/strong> <\/em>chicks, paddling in shallow water and swinging their heads from side-to-side in the way that their parents do when feeding.\u00a0 A Barn Owl<\/strong> <\/em>gave repeated fly-bys in the sublime evening light, flushing 27 Common Snipe<\/strong><\/em> at one point, and we headed back to Newton, where the Stilt Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em> (the rarest bird we’ve seen with clients) was still present, and wading between Black-headed Gulls<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0In the twilight, bats<\/strong> <\/em>passed low over our heads and a froglet<\/strong> <\/em>hopped across the path in front of us.\u00a0 Even the sometimes apparently ‘wildlife-poor’ days of the summer can produce incredible experiences, and the contribution our clients make to that experience is vital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In very summery weather I arrived at Newton to collect Yvonne, Mark and Marie.\u00a0 Sunglasses and sun cream were the order of the day and we headed down to Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Family trips are always a bit of an unknown, but having a sharp-eyed 10 year old on her first visit to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,141,139],"tags":[40,97,373,555],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-avocet","tag-barn-owl","tag-common-snipe","tag-stilt-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}