{"id":1819,"date":"2012-11-23T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2012-11-23T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:52:47","slug":"enchanted-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/enchanted-evening","title":{"rendered":"Enchanted evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the air cools, a pall of pale ghostly mist hangs just above the ground in a wildflower meadow dropping away ahead of me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m on a woodland edge, standing on a soft cushion of fallen larch and pine needles.\u00a0 Standing still and blending in, the mist wraps me in its cooling blanket as a flock of <em><strong>Goldcrests <\/strong><\/em>move through the trees just behind my vantage point.\u00a0 Overhead <em><strong>Redwings<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Rooks<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>Jackdaws<\/strong> <\/em>head to roost as a <em><strong>Carrion Crow<\/strong><\/em> caws defiantly from the top of a tall larch and <em><strong>Wood Pigeons<\/strong><\/em> flutter up and down at tree-top height.\u00a0 The incessant screeching of <em><strong>Jays<\/strong> <\/em>and chatter of <em><strong>Blackbirds<\/strong> <\/em>betrays the presence of a <em><strong>Tawny Owl<\/strong><\/em>; stirring in preparation for its nocturnal foray, it soon tires of the harassment and heads deeper into the wood.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Woodcock<\/strong> <\/em>appears at the same point where I emerged from the trees just a few minutes ago, having followed my route alongside the gurgling stream.\u00a0 Away over the fields I can see a <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em>, hunting close to the site where it raised this year&#8217;s young hoolets, and <em><strong>Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> nervously make their way out into the open.\u00a0 As the light fades and I head for home, it&#8217;s hard to believe that I&#8217;m on the edge of the most densely populated area of Northumberland and walking through a mixed woodland where there were once three coal mines, including one of the first deep-shaft mines anywhere in the world.\u00a0 For now though, it&#8217;s just me and the wildlife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the air cools, a pall of pale ghostly mist hangs just above the ground in a wildflower meadow dropping away ahead of me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m on a woodland edge, standing on a soft cushion of fallen larch and pine needles.\u00a0 Standing still and blending in, the mist wraps me in its cooling blanket as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,98,5,139],"tags":[133,272,135,382,24,504,22,66,383,145,78,565,71],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-choppington-woods-northumberland","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-blackbird","tag-carrion-crow","tag-goldcrest","tag-jackdaw","tag-jay","tag-pheasant","tag-redwing","tag-roe-deer","tag-rook","tag-song-thrush","tag-tawny-owl","tag-wood-pigeon","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}