{"id":2007,"date":"2013-07-16T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2013-07-16T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:00:49","slug":"summer-birdwatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/summer-birdwatching","title":{"rendered":"Summer birdwatching"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I collected Alison and David from The Swan<\/a> for an afternoon and evening\u00a0 around Druridge Bay<\/a>, southeast Northumberland and the Northumberland coast, the weather was continuing in the glorious vein that it had struck a few days previously.<\/p>\n

Mid-summer can be a quiet time, other than the obvious hustle and bustle of the Farne Islands<\/a>, but there’s always something to see.\u00a0 At the moment wader numbers are starting to build; Lapwing, Curlew, Redshank <\/strong><\/em>and<\/strong> Oystercatcher<\/strong><\/em> have all come down to the coastal strip from their breeding grounds and Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong><\/em> are moving through.\u00a0 One of the first things we came across was a group of four of these beautiful elegant waders as they rested with a flock of Lapwings<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Little Gulls<\/strong><\/em> were flycatching and then sleeping and a male Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> gave views that were simply breathtaking.\u00a0 As we headed up the coast, a female Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> flew low over the car, being equally as obliging as the male.\u00a0 Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> were stalking along pool edges, Common Spotted Orchid, Bloody Cranesbill <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Harebell<\/strong><\/em> added colour to pathside vegetation, hirundines<\/strong> <\/em>heading to roost formed swirling clouds of dark dots against the greying sky, a Common Frog<\/strong><\/em> sprang across the path in front of us and a Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> hunted over rough pasture on silent wings.<\/p>\n

The thing that always characterises days out with clients who are passionate about wildlife, and Alison and David have a mouthwatering list of wildlife they’ve seen around the world, is that before you know it, it’s nearly dark, pipistrelles<\/strong> <\/em>are hawking insects in the last vestiges of daylight and it’s time to head back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I collected Alison and David from The Swan for an afternoon and evening\u00a0 around Druridge Bay, southeast Northumberland and the Northumberland coast, the weather was continuing in the glorious vein that it had struck a few days previously. Mid-summer can be a quiet time, other than the obvious hustle and bustle of the Farne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,141,139],"tags":[97,242,487,319,325,172,283,485,123,93,397,210,292,358],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-barn-owl","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-bloody-cranesbill","tag-common-frog","tag-common-spotted-orchid","tag-curlew","tag-grey-heron","tag-harebell","tag-lapwing","tag-little-gull","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pipistrelle","tag-redshank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}