{"id":1946,"date":"2013-05-31T18:04:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:04:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:04:50","slug":"three-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/three-stars","title":{"rendered":"Three stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Zoe, Richard, Ella, Luke and Charlie from Alnmouth and we started our evening mini-safari around the Northumberland coast and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t too long before we were watching one of the birds that never fails to grab the attention of our clients; a beautiful, ghostly pale, <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> was quartering the vegetation close to the water&#8217;s edge before plunging into a reedbed in pursuit of prey.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> played hide-and-seek with us, as it persistently walked out of sight behind a bush before reappearing, first to one side of the bush then the other and <em><strong>Sand Martins, House Martins, Swallows <\/strong><\/em>and<strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Swifts<\/strong><\/em> were all hawking insects, allowing a detailed observation and discussion of these species that less-experienced birdwatchers often find confusing.\u00a0<em><strong> Black-headed Gulls <\/strong><\/em>and<strong><\/strong><em><strong> Little Gulls<\/strong><\/em> were watched at close quarters, with the <em><strong>Black-headed Gulls<\/strong><\/em> squabbling with each other like a group of children \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <em><strong>Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> were, well, just as cute as ever and two large <em><strong>Bats<\/strong> <\/em>flew over, not echolocating, not feeding, just heading somewhere on a mission.<\/p>\n<p>Heading north, our 2nd <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> of the evening was flying just ahead of us, and perched briefly in the lower branches of a roadside tree, <em><strong>Rabbits<\/strong> <\/em>were scampering around on grassy banks and our 3rd <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> <strong><\/strong>was silhouetted in a bare tree like a sentinel guarding the road back to Alnmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Zoe, Richard, Ella, Luke and Charlie from Alnmouth and we started our evening mini-safari around the Northumberland coast and Druridge Bay. It wasn&#8217;t too long before we were watching one of the birds that never fails to grab the attention of our clients; a beautiful, ghostly pale, Barn Owl was quartering the vegetation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,141],"tags":[97,271,232,360,93,171,284,66,218,217,233],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-barn-owl","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-house-martin","tag-little-grebe","tag-little-gull","tag-mallard","tag-rabbit","tag-roe-deer","tag-sand-martin","tag-swallow","tag-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}