{"id":1751,"date":"2012-08-23T07:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2012-08-23T07:52:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T06:52:07","slug":"wading-through-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/wading-through-august","title":{"rendered":"Wading through August"},"content":{"rendered":"

August is always a stressful month for NEWT.\u00a0 As well as leading our regular safari days, it’s British Birdwatching Fair<\/a> month, and the week leading up to the Bird Fair is always frantic; checking that we’ve got everything for the stand, mounting a new series of limited edition prints for sale, liaising with all of the other Birdwatching Northumberland partners to make sure that everybody knows exactly which aspects of the project they’re\u00a0 responsible for, and making sure that we’ve got a supply of local beer for the 4pm ‘free bar’ on our stand \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Then, after a busy three days, it’s all over and we head north…this year to the thankfully cooler temperatures of Northumberland.\u00a0 From leaving Rutland at 6pm on Sunday to arriving back in Northumberland just after 10pm, the temperature drop was an impressive 14C.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was our first post-BirdFair trip, a day of birdwatching around Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 I collected Alex from Church Point, and we started with a good scan of the beach. 4 Mediterranean Gulls<\/strong> <\/em>were close by and a small group of waders contained Oystercatcher, Common Redshank, Sanderling <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Ringed Plover<\/strong><\/em>. Waders proved to be a theme for the day and we added Common Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Lapwing, Ruff, Dunlin, Knot, Curlew Sandpiper, Curlew, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, Wood Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em>, Common Snipe, Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> and Avocet<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong> to the day list as we made our way around NEWT’s local area.\u00a0 With an impressive supporting cast that included Water Rail<\/strong><\/em>, 3 Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em> and a Spoonbill<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>it was a great day to be watching the edges of our local ponds, and a real education in just how much inward and outward movement of birds there is from the feeding and roosting wader flocks that grace southeast Northumberland at this time of the year.\u00a0 It was a great day too, to appreciate just how friendly and helpful local birdwatchers are in Northumberland – many thanks to Len and Gill for pointing us in the direction of the Wood Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong><\/em>and Gill’s sharp eyes picked out the Spotted Redshank<\/strong><\/em> which then vanished without trace soon after being found and appreciated \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August is always a stressful month for NEWT.\u00a0 As well as leading our regular safari days, it’s British Birdwatching Fair month, and the week leading up to the Bird Fair is always frantic; checking that we’ve got everything for the stand, mounting a new series of limited edition prints for sale, liaising with all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,139],"tags":[40,242,556,214,373,172,557,288,175,332,334,123,243,210,224,241,80,398,357,359,237,558],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-avocet","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-common-redshank","tag-common-sandpiper","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-curlew-sandpiper","tag-dunlin","tag-golden-plover","tag-greenshank","tag-knot","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-oystercatcher","tag-ringed-plover","tag-ruff","tag-sanderling","tag-spoonbill","tag-spotted-redshank","tag-turnstone","tag-water-rail","tag-wood-sandpiper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","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=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}