{"id":2815,"date":"2015-04-07T07:57:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T06:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2015-04-07T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T06:57:22","slug":"mustelid-mania-05042015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/mustelid-mania-05042015","title":{"rendered":"Mustelid mania; 05\/04\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving in Newbiggin to collect Susan,   Dan,   Chris and Helen,   the first thing that struck me was just how warm it was.\u00a0 Blue skies, bright sunshine, only a slight breeze &#8211; almost an early summer day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We began our search of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland with those habitual <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> impersonators, <em><strong>Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em>, grabbing our attention.\u00a0 Then <em><strong>Little Egret, Redshank<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Mallard<\/strong><\/em> all moved away from where I think our regular <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em> have their holt, although there was no sign of the elusive predator.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Stoat<\/strong><\/em>, all bounding energy, chased, but missed catching, a <em><strong>Rabbit<\/strong><\/em> and a pair of <em><strong>Marsh Harriers<\/strong><\/em> drifted over coastal reedbeds with a third bird nearby as <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> lazed in the sunshine and <em><strong>Red-breasted Mergansers<\/strong><\/em> delivered their comical courtship display.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, distantly, as the sun slipped towards the horizon a sleek, sinuous shape crossed the river before inspecting a bankside log and vanishing into a tangle of brambles \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving in Newbiggin to collect Susan, Dan, Chris and Helen, the first thing that struck me was just how warm it was.\u00a0 Blue skies, bright sunshine, only a slight breeze &#8211; almost an early summer day \ud83d\ude42 We began our search of Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland with those habitual Otter impersonators, Cormorant and Goldeneye, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,139],"tags":[372,172,168,243,397,837,284,188,183],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-otter","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-goldeneye","tag-little-egret","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-otter","tag-rabbit","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-stoat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}