{"id":1890,"date":"2013-05-02T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:35:19","slug":"moorland-meanderings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/moorland-meanderings","title":{"rendered":"Moorland meanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I collected Jenny and Rob for a day in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=12\" target=\"_blank\">North Pennines<\/a>, the weather looked promising, although a little breezy, and we were quickly in the hills.\u00a0 The song of <em><strong>Lapwing, Curlew, Snipe, Redshank, Golden Plover <\/strong><\/em>and<strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Oystercatcher<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>carried on the breeze as we found our first <em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> of the day &#8211; a <em><strong>Blackcock<\/strong><\/em> and two <em><strong>Greyhens. <\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em><strong> <\/strong>seemed to be filling every available bit of moorland and we had an &#8216;is it or isn&#8217;t it?&#8217; moment with an upright, backlit, black bird on an old barn that seemed to show a pale crescent on the throat\/breast.\u00a0 It flew out of sight and we were left wondering (I&#8217;ve been back and do know what it is, but you&#8217;ll have to wait for my next blog post&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Our afternoon finished with eight <em><strong>Blackcocks<\/strong> <\/em>lekking, but probably the stars of the day were one of our smaller moorland birds, as we came across a succession of <em><strong>Wheatears<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Strikingly handsome male, and subtly beautiful female, <em><strong>Northern Wheatears<\/strong><\/em> are always a pleasure to see, but the real surprise was a group of six birds together.\u00a0 Big, upright, and flushed underneath with pinky-orange, these birds were <em><strong>Greenland Wheatears. <\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Migration doesn&#8217;t happen only on the coast \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I collected Jenny and Rob for a day in the North Pennines, the weather looked promising, although a little breezy, and we were quickly in the hills.\u00a0 The song of Lapwing, Curlew, Snipe, Redshank, Golden Plover and Oystercatcher carried on the breeze as we found our first Black Grouse of the day &#8211; 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":[3,12,5],"tags":[54,172,175,573,123,572,210,208,358,204],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-pennines","category-northumberland","tag-black-grouse","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-greenland-wheatear","tag-lapwing","tag-northern-wheatear","tag-oystercatcher","tag-red-grouse","tag-redshank","tag-snipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}