{"id":1833,"date":"2012-12-24T19:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2012-12-24T19:47:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T18:47:17","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/christmas-eve","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s become a tradition over the last few years that, on Christmas Eve, the Friends of Choppington Woods have a walk from one end of the reserve to the other.\u00a0 One year we finish at our house and the next at Glen and Karen’s.\u00a0 This year we were starting at our end of the woods so I drove to Glen’s and collected him and Sue, from Morpeth and District Red Squirrels<\/a>, then back to our end of the woods for the start of the walk.<\/p>\n

As we walked through the woods a lot of the conversation focused on the fight to maintain (and expand!) the population of Red Squirrels<\/strong><\/em> in Northumberland.\u00a0 It’s a comfort, in difficult times for this icon of Northumberland’s wildlife, that the volunteer groups throughout Northern England are filled with the people who have a genuine passion for saving the species.<\/p>\n

After just over an hour walking through the leaves and the mud, we all arrived at Glen’s and were greeted by Karen with delicious mulled wine.\u00a0 After a buffet lunch (that has set the bar quite high in advance of Christmas Eve 2013…) we had a real treat as Glen drove us home in the original NEWTmobile!<\/p>\n

Have a safe, merry and peaceful Christmas, wherever you are \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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