{"id":2385,"date":"2014-06-02T09:48:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:48:46","slug":"timing-druridge-bay-30052014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/timing-druridge-bay-30052014","title":{"rendered":"Timing; Druridge Bay 30\/05\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon was my scheduled walk for the Amble Puffin Festival, and conditions were better than last year &#8211; when\u00a0 it was so windy that participants were struggling to stand up at the start of the walk!\u00a0 Andy and Sam arrived just before 2pm and, as they were the only participants and writing an article about the festival, I tailored the trip so that they could both see the best of what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Druridge Bay<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has to offer visitors to Amble, as well as making sure that Sam was back in Amble in time for her sailing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puffincruises.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Gray&#8217;s Puffin Cruises<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The key to a great wildlife experience is often timing.\u00a0 We have our own schedules to work to, none of which are of any concern to our wildlife \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 Given that, a distant raptor high above the skyline was just what I&#8217;d been hoping for.\u00a0 The distinctive light flight action and shape of the bird were enough for me to quickly head to where I guessed the bird was also heading.\u00a0 Sure enough, there he was, carrying prey and, just a few seconds after we arrived, his mate was flying just behind and below him.\u00a0 The exquisitive choreography of a <em><strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong> <\/em>food pass has to be seen to be believed, and if we&#8217;d been just a couple of minutes earlier, or a couple of minutes later, we might not have seen it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon was my scheduled walk for the Amble Puffin Festival, and conditions were better than last year &#8211; when\u00a0 it was so windy that participants were struggling to stand up at the start of the walk!\u00a0 Andy and Sam arrived just before 2pm and, as they were the only participants and writing an article [&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],"tags":[629,397],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","tag-amble-puffin-festival","tag-marsh-harrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","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=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}