{"id":184,"date":"2009-10-08T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2009-10-08T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T07:36:12","slug":"whether-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/uncategorized\/whether-the-weather","title":{"rendered":"Whether the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>is good or bad, it&#8217;s always possible to make the best of it.  On Monday I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/local\/tyne\/hi\/people_and_places\/nature\/newsid_8292000\/8292842.stm\">Press Trip<\/a> to Druridge Bay.  The weather was excellent and the highlight of the afternoon was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/gallery.php?type=1&#038;gallery=26\">Glossy Ibis<\/a> at Druridge Pools.  Tuesday was not such a nice day and I spent it watching our garden wildlife from the comfort of the office.  As I was a little under the weather I didn&#8217;t mind spending a day indoors.  I&#8217;ve never quite understood &#8216;familiarity breeds contempt&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday dawned crisp, clear and very frosty.  A day out was surely what I needed to hasten my recovery from whatever was ailing me.  With a focus on getting better shots of the ibis, having previously photographed it in dismal light conditions, it was disheartening to see it a long way from the hide.  Not to worry, the local herons soon gave it a bit of a kicking and it was winging it&#8217;s way towards me.  The image linked above was exactly what I had in mind when I left the office yesterday morning.  I love it when a plan comes together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is good or bad, it&#8217;s always possible to make the best of it. On Monday I had a Press Trip to Druridge Bay. The weather was excellent and the highlight of the afternoon was the Glossy Ibis at Druridge Pools. Tuesday was not such a nice day and I spent it watching our garden wildlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}