{"id":2617,"date":"2014-08-25T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2014-08-25T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:57:27","slug":"lifers-druridge-bay-birdwatching-13082014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/lifers-druridge-bay-birdwatching-13082014","title":{"rendered":"Lifers; Druridge Bay birdwatching 13\/08\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It isn’t unusual for our clients to see species for the first time on one of our tours, but it’s much less usual for me to see something new…<\/p>\n

I collected Chris from home in Gosforth and we headed out towards the coast and Druridge Bay<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s always a great pleasure to have Chris out on a tour with us, although this one held the possibility of an early, and sudden, finish as his step-daughter was due to have her second child.\u00a0 Mid-August is still an excellent time for wading birds and the selection on offer was impressive; Dunlin, Knot, Avocet, Lapwing, Curlew, Whimbrel, Redshank, Ruff, Common Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em> and Oystercatcher<\/strong><\/em> were perhaps overshadowed by one of Chris’ two lifers for the day; Stilt Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Pied, Yellow<\/strong><\/em> and Grey Wagtails<\/strong><\/em> were all flycatching close to water and a 2cy male Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> managed to be both impressive and educational at the same time.<\/p>\n

Chris’ other lifer for the day was a new bird for me too.\u00a0 Gulls aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, but the Caspian Gull<\/strong><\/em> in Amble Harbour was an impressive bird; a whole lesson in structure, behaviour, moult and ageing all wrapped up in in one ‘large white-headed gull’; the alternative to ‘little brown jobs’ for birders who prefer staring at mud rather than bushes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It isn’t unusual for our clients to see species for the first time on one of our tours, but it’s much less usual for me to see something new… I collected Chris from home in Gosforth and we headed out towards the coast and Druridge Bay.\u00a0 It’s always a great pleasure to have Chris out […]<\/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":[40,655,214,172,288,256,334,123,397,536,358,241,555,231,552],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","tag-avocet","tag-caspian-gull","tag-common-sandpiper","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-knot","tag-lapwing","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-redshank","tag-ruff","tag-stilt-sandpiper","tag-whimbrel","tag-yellow-wagtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}