Yesterday afternoon brought quite different conditions to Tuesday evening; still cold and windy, but the clear skies had been replaced by gloomy cloud as I collected Charlotte, Ali, Ben and Thomas from Newbiggin for their second NEWT trip in two days.<\/p>\n
In difficult light, and occasional rain, we didn’t manage to find an Otter<\/strong><\/em>, but there was a wealth of birdlife to enjoy; a Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> was drying it’s wings as Little Grebe, Shoveler, Mallard, Teal, Wigeon, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Moorhen<\/strong><\/em> and Mute Swan<\/strong><\/em> fed nearby, flushed briefly by a Sparrowhawk<\/strong><\/em> that landed on a small rock in the water before heading off to menace something else.\u00a0 As dusk approached, although it was hard to discern any difference from mid-afternoon, Starlings<\/strong><\/em> began a murmuration, Greylag<\/strong><\/em> and Pink-footed Geese<\/strong><\/em> arrived noisily to roost, Whooper Swans<\/strong><\/em> were whooping loudly and there was the ‘is it a heron<\/strong><\/em>, is it an owl<\/strong><\/em>?’ moment as a Bittern<\/strong><\/em> flew lazily from the reeds, passing by us on it’s way to another reedbed \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday afternoon brought quite different conditions to Tuesday evening; still cold and windy, but the clear skies had been replaced by gloomy cloud as I collected Charlotte, Ali, Ben and Thomas from Newbiggin for their second NEWT trip in two days. In difficult light, and occasional rain, we didn’t manage to find an Otter, but […]<\/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":[167,372,172,288,170,190,360,171,178,129,269,131,161,169,130,181],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","tag-bittern","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-gadwall","tag-greylag-goose","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-shoveler","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-starling","tag-teal","tag-whooper-swan","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}