After the Seal and Seaduck Special on Saturday, we opted for a birdwatching walk on Sunday.\u00a0 The original plan was to leave my car at Alnmouth, drive to Craster in Sarah’s car and then walk the coastal path between the two villages.\u00a0 As we set off from Craster it looked good for our walk, but within 15 minutes we were caught up in a howling southerly and driving icy rain.\u00a0 Eventually, after slightly less than half of\u00a0our planned route\u00a0we admitted defeat and returned to Craster harbour.\u00a0 Then the weather improved…sitting and enjoying our picnic at the harbourside, watching Turnstones, Redshanks and Oystercatchers, we were alerted to the presence of a dumpy brown bird coming ‘in-off’ as everything scattered\u00a0from the harbour wall.\u00a0 Thoughts of Little Owl, or something rarer,\u00a0quickly vanished as the bird’s very long bill became evident.\u00a0 Now, mid-October in a\u00a0howling northeasterly is the time we would expect to find Woodcock arriving on the coast, but early December in a 25mph southerly?\u00a0 It landed just a few feet from us, in the middle of the track, and sat for about 20 seconds before flying low up the road out of the village.<\/p>\n
After 2 days out and about, the payback was a day of housework\/admin on Monday.\u00a0 So, I decided to ‘sort out’ our bookshelves.\u00a0 Always a bad idea as I’m easily distracted, and re-arranging\u00a0our books\u00a0invariably leads to “hmm, I haven’t looked at that for a while”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the Seal and Seaduck Special on Saturday, we opted for a birdwatching walk on Sunday.\u00a0 The original plan was to leave my car at Alnmouth, drive to Craster in Sarah’s car and then walk the coastal path between the two villages.\u00a0 As we set off from Craster it looked good for our walk, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[74,823,73,72,71],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","tag-alnmouth","tag-birdwatching","tag-craster","tag-little-owl","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}