{"id":1806,"date":"2012-10-19T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2012-10-19T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:15:15","slug":"focusing-on-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/focusing-on-the-coast","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on the coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having lived on, or near, the Northumberland coast for 15 years (apart from my 6 month sojourn to Texas and Arizona) it’s a location I return to time and again with my camera\/binoculars\/telescope\/camcorder\/sound recording gear (delete as applicable depending on my mood and\/or aim for the day).\u00a0 The coast is my favorite location for one-to-one photography tuition<\/a> with clients too (although the North Pennines AONB<\/a> runs it pretty close!).<\/p>\n

I drove down to Wallsend to collect Mac for his day of photography tuition, and we set off along the coast of southeast Northumberland and Druridge Bay<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve always seen dilapidated farm buildings as ideal locations for Little Owl<\/strong><\/em> and Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em>, but one group of buildings made an ideal location to explore the reciprocal relationship between shutter speed and aperture, before we headed north and Mac added immeasurably to my knowledge of the opencast mining operations of the area.\u00a0 Next stop was on the top of the dunes overlooking the north of Druridge Bay and, as well as the impressive scene looking across the rolling surf out to sea, a high-tide wader roost was building up on the rocks below us.\u00a0 Redshank, Turnstone, Oystercatcher <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> were all arriving as the surf lapped at their feet.\u00a0 Then they all scattered.\u00a0 Sadly this didn’t herald the arrival of a Peregrine<\/strong> <\/em>or other predator…but, instead, a jogger.\u00a0 As luck would have it, I was due at a meeting with a Lead Adviser from Natural England a few days later, to discuss coastal activities and wildlife disturbance.\u00a0 The conclusion of\u00a0 a brief discussion at that meeting was that jogging through a high-tide wader roost in a SSSI is mindless stupidity, sheer ignorance and possibly an offence.\u00a0 People really should know better.<\/p>\n

Boats at Boulmer and Holy Island came under the focus of Mac’s camera before we arrived at our final location for the day.\u00a0 Breaking surf, rock pools and the Northumberland coast’s stunning edifice of Bamburgh Castle provided our last shoot before the sun dipped behind the dunes and out of sight, and we headed back south.\u00a0 The light wasn’t the best, although it was a good day to experiment with exposure settings, so here’s a shot of Bamburgh Castle in the sort of conditions that I really enjoy.<\/p>\n

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

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Having lived on, or near, the Northumberland coast for 15 years (apart from my 6 month sojourn to Texas and Arizona) it’s a location I return to time and again with my camera\/binoculars\/telescope\/camcorder\/sound recording gear (delete as applicable depending on my mood and\/or aim for the day).\u00a0 The coast is my favorite location for one-to-one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,10,5,141,16],"tags":[97,172,162,72,210,55,312,358,359],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-lindisfarne","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-photography","tag-barn-owl","tag-curlew","tag-landscape-photography","tag-little-owl","tag-oystercatcher","tag-peregrine","tag-photography-tuition","tag-redshank","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}