{"id":2074,"date":"2013-09-11T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T10:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T10:43:49","slug":"whales-waders-and-wildfowl-day-1-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/whales-waders-and-wildfowl-day-1-and-2","title":{"rendered":"Whales, Waders and Wildfowl day (1 and) 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After getting back to Seahouses harbour at the end of our Whale and Dolphin Cruise<\/a>, Sarah headed south back towards home, and myself and Bill followed the coast north to Holy Island<\/a>.\u00a0 The breeze had been strengthening while we were offshore, and around Holy Island it was close to unmanageable, with even a heavy stable tripod struggling to remain still enough to use the telescope.\u00a0 We did find Bar-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> around the harbour, but soon beat a hasty retreat – via the ice cream van \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Heading back down the coast in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle, <\/strong>we watched flocks of Eider<\/strong> <\/em>loafing just offshore and a mixed flock of Common, Sandwich <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> held a surprise in the shape of an adult Roseate Tern<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dinner at The Swan<\/a> was followed by discussing the plans for the next day, and on Sunday we concentrated on Druridge Bay<\/a> and south east Northumberland.\u00a0 It turned out to be a good day for waders, with Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Curlew <\/strong><\/em>and plenty of <\/strong>Snipe<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Perhaps the wader highlight of the day though were flocks of Black-tailed Godwit <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Ruff<\/strong><\/em> arriving from the north east, pausing briefly to drink and rest and then departing to the south west.\u00a0 A bird that’s rarely seen made it’s way onto the trip list too, as the long-staying Spotted Crake<\/strong><\/em> at East Chevington wandered in and out of the reedbeds.\u00a0 Goosander, <\/strong><\/em>more <\/strong>Eider <\/strong><\/em>and lots of <\/strong>Grey Herons<\/strong> <\/em>were around the River Coquet and it was soon time to head off, collect Sarah and go into Morpeth to eat at the excellent Nadon Thai<\/a>.\u00a0 It was an excellent two days, with a client who was excellent company, a keen birdwatcher and knows a lot of sites in and around Norfolk, where we haven’t been for a few years now, really well.<\/p>\n

Whales? yes. Waders? yes. Wildfowl? yes.\u00a0 It was the holiday that does exactly what it says on the tin \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After getting back to Seahouses harbour at the end of our Whale and Dolphin Cruise, Sarah headed south back towards home, and myself and Bill followed the coast north to Holy Island.\u00a0 The breeze had been strengthening while we were offshore, and around Holy Island it was close to unmanageable, with even a heavy stable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,3,119,5,141],"tags":[230,147,242,229,288,149,378,283,541,224,274,241,223,586],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-birdwatching","category-holy-island","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-arctic-tern","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-common-tern","tag-dunlin","tag-eider","tag-goosander","tag-grey-heron","tag-little-ringed-plover","tag-ringed-plover","tag-roseate-tern","tag-ruff","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-spotted-crake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","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=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}