By extraordinary coincidence, one of our least observed mammals put in an appearance for the second consecutive day…<\/p>\n
I collected David, Jackie and Alexander from Bamburgh and we headed south to start their Prestige Tour of the Northumberland Coast.\u00a0 As Swallows <\/strong><\/em>and<\/strong> House Martins<\/strong><\/em> flitted about low over the water in front of us, a Stoat<\/strong> <\/em>proved elusive as it darted in and out of the vegetation close to the water’s edge, momentarily startling the dozing ducks before vanishing back into the edge of a reedbed.\u00a0 As ever something wholly unexpected appeared, on this occasion a Peregrine<\/strong> <\/em>over Cresswell village.\u00a0 A Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> walking through an arable field appeared like a disembodied head – only popping up, like a Jack-in-the-box, every few metres as it made it’s way across the field.<\/p>\n Another elusive mustelid put in a brief appearance too, as a Badger<\/strong> <\/em>trotted along between reedbeds, but unfortunately hidden from view by the vegetation on our side of the pool.\u00a0 As dusk approached, pipistrelle<\/strong> <\/em>bats were flitting back and forth, tiny Common Froglets <\/em><\/strong>hopped across the path in front of us and the drive back to Bamburgh produced another impressive mammal, as a Brown Hare<\/strong><\/em> loped along the verge as we passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By extraordinary coincidence, one of our least observed mammals put in an appearance for the second consecutive day… I collected David, Jackie and Alexander from Bamburgh and we headed south to start their Prestige Tour of the Northumberland Coast.\u00a0 As Swallows and House Martins flitted about low over the water in front of us, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,141],"tags":[286,57,319,232,55,292,66,183,217],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-badger","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-frog","tag-house-martin","tag-peregrine","tag-pipistrelle","tag-roe-deer","tag-stoat","tag-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","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=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}