Some wildlife experiences are so special that on their own they can make an entire trip memorable.\u00a0 Having two happening at the same time is just distracting…<\/p>\n
I collected Rebecca and Gill from Church Point, for an afternoon around Druridge Bay<\/a> that had only been finalised earlier on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Northumberland hit us with its own peculiar brand of ‘four seasons in one hour’ as we set out, including a shower of hail\/snow.\u00a0 Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Coal Tits, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Woodpigeons, Tree Sparrows <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Reed Buntings<\/strong><\/em> were clustered around feeding stations – always a good spot to practice your wildlife photography – and we popped along to Amble Harbour to catch up with some nicely photogenic Common Eider<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Equally entertaining, as always, was Dave Gray<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n As sunset approached we headed for the final destination that I’d planned for the afternoon.\u00a0 A small flock of Starlings<\/strong> <\/em>was just the warm-up act for the finale to our trip.\u00a0 Soon, a larger group could be seen gathering away to the south and they began to head northwards towards our vantage point.\u00a0 Group after group joined the murmuration and suddenly they split as a male Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> flew in, followed quickly by a female.\u00a0 Drifting in unison they kept rolling in mid-air to touch talons, as the murmuration carried on just a few metres above them.\u00a0 As the sun dipped below the impressive ridge of Simonside away to the west, the murmuration did just what Rebecca was hoping for and passed right over the last glow of the setting sun \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 As we returned to Newbiggin a flock of Whooper Swans<\/strong><\/em> flew north overhead, calling as they faded into the gloom of the coming darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some wildlife experiences are so special that on their own they can make an entire trip memorable.\u00a0 Having two happening at the same time is just distracting… I collected Rebecca and Gill from Church Point, for an afternoon around Druridge Bay that had only been finalised earlier on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Northumberland hit us with its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,16],"tags":[46,102,101,221,45,75,397,312,127,161,125,130],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-photography","tag-blue-tit","tag-chaffinch","tag-coal-tit","tag-common-eider","tag-great-tit","tag-greenfinch","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-photography-tuition","tag-reed-bunting","tag-starling","tag-tree-sparrow","tag-whooper-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}