{"id":1965,"date":"2013-06-21T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2013-06-21T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T13:36:08","slug":"a-real-birding-day-birdwatching-in-the-north-pennines-14062013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/a-real-birding-day-birdwatching-in-the-north-pennines-14062013","title":{"rendered":"“a real birding day” Birdwatching in the North Pennines 14\/06\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a successful sailing around Coquet Island last Thursday, with sightings of Roseate Terns<\/strong><\/em> perched and flying,<\/p>\n

\"Roseate<\/a>
Britain’s rarest breeding seabird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

our re-arranged North Pennines<\/a> Safari was on Friday.<\/p>\n

I collected Liz and Ronnie from The Swan<\/a> and we headed southwest into the hills.\u00a0 Only a month earlier we had a North Pennines trip in near-zero temperatures<\/a>, but now everything was much more springlike.\u00a0 Curlews<\/strong> <\/em>were gliding across the moors, their haunting cries carrying on the breeze, Lapwings<\/strong> <\/em>were displaying in that bizarre way that has you half convinced they they’re just going to crash into the ground and there were plenty of birds with chicks; Redshank, Curlew, Lapwing, Golden Plover <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> were all mindful of their offspring as we made our way across the moors.\u00a0 Common Snipe<\/strong><\/em> appeared unexpectedly from clumps of rush and one obliging bird perched on a fence post as we sat just a few metres away.\u00a0 Pairs of noisy Redshank<\/strong> <\/em>flew from fence post to dry stone wall and back again and, like the Snipe<\/strong><\/em>, one bird perched obligingly (like the one pictured here from 2011).<\/p>\n

\"Common<\/a><\/p>\n

Liz’s feedback e-mail, at the end of the holiday and our day in the North Pennines, summed it up so well – “a real birding day” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a successful sailing around Coquet Island last Thursday, with sightings of Roseate Terns perched and flying, our re-arranged North Pennines Safari was on Friday. I collected Liz and Ronnie from The Swan and we headed southwest into the hills.\u00a0 Only a month earlier we had a North Pennines trip in near-zero temperatures, but now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,275,12,5],"tags":[373,172,175,123,208,358,274],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-coquet-island","category-pennines","category-northumberland","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-lapwing","tag-red-grouse","tag-redshank","tag-roseate-tern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","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=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}