{"id":2527,"date":"2014-08-05T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T08:15:04","slug":"twitching-druridge-bay-29072014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/twitching-druridge-bay-29072014","title":{"rendered":"Twitching; Druridge Bay 29\/07\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collected Stephen from home in North Shields and we headed north to Druridge Bay<\/a> for an afternoon and evening of birdwatching.\u00a0 Late July can produce some very good birds, and this was to be no exception…<\/p>\n

Mediterranean Gull<\/strong><\/em> is a bit of a southeast Northumberland speciality, and the ghostly white adult drifting across the field of view of Stephen’s new binoculars was a lifer for him.\u00a0 The rest of the afternoon was dominated by waders, with flocks of Curlew, Redshank, Oystercatcher, Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> and Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong><\/em> all flushing in alarm at an unseen (at least by us) menace.\u00a0 The banks of the River Aln produced Curlew, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Spotted Redshank<\/strong><\/em> and four Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We bumped into a few of NEWT’s other clients during the afternoon and, when Len and Gill calmly mentioned that there was Stilt Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em> at Cresswell, we restructured the afternoon \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Arriving at Cresswell, the news wasn’t good; the bird had apparently disappeared into long grass on the edge of the pool four hours earlier and hadn’t reappeared.\u00a0 Knot, Dunlin, Common Snipe, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Curlew, Lapwing, Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> and Avocet<\/strong><\/em> are all very nice birds, but they’re no Stilt Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We decided to head down the coast and have something to eat while scanning the sea.\u00a0 As we left Cresswell, Gill said that they’d ‘phone me if the bird reappeared so I took my mobile off silent although, with a four and a half gap since the last sighting, I wasn’t overly optimistic.\u00a0 Ten minutes later, I’d just poured the soup and we were enjoying our picnic when my ‘phone rang.\u00a0 I didn’t manage to get it out of my pocket in time to answer it, but it soon rang again and this time it was a call from Ipin<\/a> “Martin, it’s back”.<\/p>\n

Stephen had his second lifer of the afternoon, and late July was doing what it does really well – excellent waders \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I collected Stephen from home in North Shields and we headed north to Druridge Bay for an afternoon and evening of birdwatching.\u00a0 Late July can produce some very good birds, and this was to be no exception… Mediterranean Gull is a bit of a southeast Northumberland speciality, and the ghostly white adult drifting across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[40,242,373,172,288,175,332,334,123,243,193,210,358,357,555,231],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","tag-avocet","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-golden-plover","tag-greenshank","tag-knot","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-mediterranean-gull","tag-oystercatcher","tag-redshank","tag-spotted-redshank","tag-stilt-sandpiper","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}