{"id":1870,"date":"2013-04-04T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2013-04-04T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:24:51","slug":"in-the-grip-of-winter-in-late-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/in-the-grip-of-winter-in-late-march","title":{"rendered":"In the grip of winter&#8230;in late March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw the two of us heading southwest into the North Pennines to carry out some recce work for a press trip that Martin was leading.\u00a0 As soon as we were up above the level of the Tyne valley there was snow laying, which got deeper as we gained altitude.\u00a0 <em><strong>Lapwings, Curlew <\/strong><\/em>and<strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Oystercatcher<\/strong><\/em> were all displaying, <em><strong>Common Kestrels<\/strong><\/em> were hovering over the few clear areas of vegetation and <em><strong>Common Buzzards<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>soared by.\u00a0 With a white landscape, <em><strong>Red Grouse <\/strong><\/em>and<strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> were easy to find and a few <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> were close enough to make it worthwhile getting the camera out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1873\" alt=\"Red Grouse,bird photography,bird photography tuition,Northumberland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5867.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5867.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5867-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1872\" alt=\"Red Grouse,bird photography,bird photography tuition,Northumberland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5845.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5845.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5845-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1871\" alt=\"Red Grouse,bird photography,photography tuition,Northumberland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5928.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5928.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130331-_DSC5928-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the day came just over the border in County Durham with a stunning male <em><strong>Ring Ouzel,<\/strong><\/em> close to a nest site, being harrassed by a <em><strong>Mistle Thrush.<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>The &#8216;Mountain Blackbird&#8217; just seemed to be in exactly the right place in the wintry hills in deep snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw the two of us heading southwest into the North Pennines to carry out some recce work for a press trip that Martin was leading.\u00a0 As soon as we were up above the level of the Tyne valley there was snow laying, which got deeper as we gained altitude.\u00a0 Lapwings, Curlew and Oystercatcher were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[54,57,148,320,172,123,146,210,284,208,263],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennines","category-northumberland","tag-black-grouse","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-buzzard","tag-common-kestrel","tag-curlew","tag-lapwing","tag-mistle-thrush","tag-oystercatcher","tag-rabbit","tag-red-grouse","tag-ring-ouzel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}