{"id":2125,"date":"2013-12-03T12:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T11:58:33","slug":"waders-and-wildfowl-northumberland-coast-30112013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/waders-and-wildfowl-northumberland-coast-30112013","title":{"rendered":"Waders and wildfowl; Northumberland Coast 30\/11\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear the one about the Leeds fan, the Liverpool fan and the Hull City fan who had a day out birding in Northumberland?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected Andy and Sue from their hotel in <strong>Bamburgh<\/strong> and we headed south for a day around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and the southeast Northumberland coast. In glorious early morning sunlight, a very obliging <em><strong>Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/em> was perched on a hedge by the road and we were soon admiring the first of several species of duck that we were to encounter during the day with two pairs of <em><strong>Eider<\/strong> <\/em>on the River Coquet. Sue spotted two <em><strong>Roe Deer <\/strong><\/em>as<strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Redshank <\/strong><\/em>and<strong><\/strong><em><strong> Curlew<\/strong><\/em> were pottering along the water&#8217;s edge, <em><strong>Turnstone<\/strong> <\/em>were engaged in using their heads to turn over large heaps of seaweed and a <em><strong>Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> flew upstream.\u00a0 <em><strong>Sanderling<\/strong> <\/em>were skittering back and forth along the gently breaking surf and <em><strong>Bar-tailed Godwits<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Ringed Plover<\/strong><\/em> were on the beach as ghostly white <em><strong>Mediterranean Gulls<\/strong><\/em> soared overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks proved to be a theme for the day, as did large numbers of <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em>, with <em><strong>Gadwall, Mallard, Red-breasted Merganser, Tufted Duck, Scaup, Teal, Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> and, probably the most stunning of all, two <em><strong>Long-tailed Ducks<\/strong><\/em> at Druridge Pools.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Black-necked Grebe<\/strong><\/em> was a picture of elegance in black and white, and small skeins of <em><strong>Pink-footed Geese<\/strong><\/em> were heading south.\u00a0 <em><strong>Starlings<\/strong> <\/em>were massing as dusk approached and we headed back towards Bamburgh as darkness decended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear the one about the Leeds fan, the Liverpool fan and the Hull City fan who had a day out birding in Northumberland?&#8230; I collected Andy and Sue from their hotel in Bamburgh and we headed south for a day around Druridge Bay and the southeast Northumberland coast. In glorious early morning sunlight, [&hellip;]<\/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":[147,605,148,172,168,128,123,243,68,193,129,188,358,127,224,66,80,161,169,359,181],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-black-necked-grebe","tag-common-buzzard","tag-curlew","tag-goldeneye","tag-kestrel","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-mediterranean-gull","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-redshank","tag-reed-bunting","tag-ringed-plover","tag-roe-deer","tag-sanderling","tag-starling","tag-teal","tag-turnstone","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}