{"id":2078,"date":"2013-09-11T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2013-09-11T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:20:08","slug":"evening-flight-druridge-bay-birdwatching-05092013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/evening-flight-druridge-bay-birdwatching-05092013","title":{"rendered":"Evening flight; Druridge Bay birdwatching 05\/09\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes we see birds that are rare or spectacular, but sometimes the common birds are the ones that are the highlight of the day…<\/p>\n

I collected Julia and we set off for the coast, and an afternoon and evening birdwatching around Druridge Bay<\/a>.\u00a0 A Merlin<\/strong> <\/em>passed by on pointed wings, racing across a nearby field and causing panic amongst the birds in the hedgerows.\u00a0 Eiders <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Goosanders<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>were on the River Coquet and we found the first of two Stoats<\/strong> <\/em>for the day.\u00a0 Grey Herons <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Cormorants<\/strong> <\/em>were standing statue-like by the edges of pools, and waders included Bar-tailed <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Black-tailed Godwits, Curlew, Dunlin, Ruff, Lapwing, Redshank <\/strong><\/em>and no less than five <\/strong>Greenshank<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

As dusk approached a small murmuration of Starlings<\/strong> <\/em>quickly dived into the cover of a reedbed and then one of nature’s great spectacles unfolded before us as skein after skein of geese<\/strong> <\/em>arrived noisily for their evening roost.\u00a0 Canada <\/strong><\/em>and<\/strong> Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em> may not be any peoples favourites, but as the numbers swelled and the noise level rose to a cacophony it was a bewitching sight.\u00a0 On the edge of the roost two birds caught the eye; not genuinely wild, although nobody seems to be entirely sure where they came from, the two Bar-headed Geese<\/strong><\/em> were still worth watching.<\/p>\n

Then, on the journey back to Netherton, two mammals were caught in the glare of our headlights.\u00a0 First a Hedgehog,<\/strong> <\/em>crossing the road in the middle of Warkworth, managed to avoid being run over then another mammal…nearly a week later, and I’m still not sure what it was, although Polecat\/Ferret<\/strong><\/em> seems the best option.\u00a0 Who knows what’s roaming the countryside…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes we see birds that are rare or spectacular, but sometimes the common birds are the ones that are the highlight of the day… I collected Julia and we set off for the coast, and an afternoon and evening birdwatching around Druridge Bay.\u00a0 A Merlin passed by on pointed wings, racing across a nearby field […]<\/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],"tags":[502,147,242,560,372,172,288,149,589,378,332,283,190,489,123,56,588,358,241,413,183],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","tag-bar-headed-goose","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-canada-goose","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-eider","tag-ferret","tag-goosander","tag-greenshank","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-hedgehog","tag-lapwing","tag-merlin","tag-polecat","tag-redshank","tag-ruff","tag-starlings","tag-stoat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}