{"id":2685,"date":"2014-11-03T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:04:25","slug":"wading-through-the-waders-beginners-birdwatching-31102014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/wading-through-the-waders-beginners-birdwatching-31102014","title":{"rendered":"Wading through the waders; Beginner&#8217;s Birdwatching 31\/10\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=3\" target=\"_blank\">Beginners Birdwatching<\/a> session and I collected George from Beadnell and we headed towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=11\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Holy Island<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the afternoon was spent concentrating on waders, with <em><strong>Purple Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Turnstone<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Redshank<\/strong><\/em> all studied in detail.\u00a0 A pale, elegant, wader swimming in the channel under the Holy Island causeway turned out to be a <em><strong>Spotted Redshank<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; possibly the bird I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/wild-goose-chase-bespoke-birdwatching-30102014\" target=\"_blank\">heard calling in the dark on Thursday<\/a>&#8216;s trip &#8211; and flocks of <em><strong>Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Pale-bellied Brent Goose<\/strong><\/em> carpeted the mudflats.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how time flies when you&#8217;re engrossed in watching birds sticking their faces in mud, and three hours quickly passed and I dropped George back at Beadnell before heading down the coast to home myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday was a Beginners Birdwatching session and I collected George from Beadnell and we headed towards Holy Island. Most of the afternoon was spent concentrating on waders, with Purple Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Turnstone and Redshank all studied in detail.\u00a0 A pale, elegant, wader swimming in the channel under 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":[3,119],"tags":[147,172,175,400,210,108,176,358,357,359,181],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-holy-island","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-plover","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pale-bellied-brent-goose","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-redshank","tag-spotted-redshank","tag-turnstone","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","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=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}