{"id":2377,"date":"2014-05-29T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:41:51","slug":"moorland-meanderings-north-pennines-safari-27052014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/moorland-meanderings-north-pennines-safari-27052014","title":{"rendered":"Moorland meanderings; North Pennines Safari 27\/05\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northumberland may be a coastal county, but heading inland you soon encounter some big impressive landscapes.\u00a0 I collected Gordon and Mandy, who were last out with us on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/performer\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay trip in June last year<\/a>, and we headed through the foothills of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=1\" target=\"_blank\">Cheviots<\/a>, down to the Tyne valley and then up into the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=12\" target=\"_blank\"> North Pennines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d all packed waterproofs&#8230;but it turns out that the weather forecast isn&#8217;t always right \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 On a big, rolling landscape, under big, big skies,<em><strong> Common Snipe, Curlew, Redshank, Oystercatcher <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong>Lapwing<\/strong> <\/em>were all displaying, the plaintive cries of <em><strong>Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> carried across the moorland on a cool breeze, <em><strong>Skylarks<\/strong> <\/em>soared overhead, delivering their rich repertoire against the backdrop of azure sky, <em><strong>Cuckoo<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>Merlin<\/strong> <\/em>attracted the attention of angry <em><strong>Meadow Pipits <\/strong><\/em>as<em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> fed contentedly in grassy fields adjacent to the moors.\u00a0 <em><strong>Golden Plover <\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> kept a watchful eye as their chicks scrambled up and over tussocks of heather and an impressive array of flowers, including <em><strong>Spring Sandwort, Mountain Pansy, Bird&#8217;s-eye Primrose <\/strong><\/em>and more<em><strong> Spring Gentians<\/strong><\/em> than we&#8217;ve seen in the last six years, provided interest at our feet.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an experience that really has to be, well, experienced, in order to appreciate what the area has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>The North Pennines could almost tempt me to move away from the sea, almost \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northumberland may be a coastal county, but heading inland you soon encounter some big impressive landscapes.\u00a0 I collected Gordon and Mandy, who were last out with us on a Druridge Bay trip in June last year, and we headed through the foothills of the Cheviots, down to the Tyne valley and then up into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-cheviot-valleys","category-pennines","category-northumberland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","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=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}