{"id":2887,"date":"2015-05-22T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T06:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T06:55:02","slug":"here-comes-the-summer-druridge-bay-15052015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/here-comes-the-summer-druridge-bay-15052015","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the summer; Druridge Bay 15\/05\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transition from winter, to spring, to summer often seems to come in little bursts, then suddenly it&#8217;s really the breeding season and the range of species we find on our trips is very different to just a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>I collected Angela and Debs from Warkworth and we set off down the coast for a day exploring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> in search of <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em> and other wildlife.\u00a0 Elegant <em><strong>Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Avocets<\/strong><\/em> added a touch of glamour throughout the day as <em><strong>Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> sat motionless, <em><strong>Sedge Warblers<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Reed Buntings<\/strong><\/em> were singing, <em><strong>Reed Warblers<\/strong><\/em> were typically elusive, appearing briefly before vanishing into the base of reedbeds, <em><strong>Swallows, Sand Martins, House Martins<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Swifts<\/strong><\/em> were hawking insects above the water and <em><strong>Gadwall, Mallard<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> were all full of the joys of spring \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 A <em><strong>Merlin<\/strong><\/em> boldly buzzed a soaring <em><strong>Peregrine<\/strong><\/em>, before the arrival of a second <em><strong>Peregrine<\/strong><\/em> saw the little <em><strong>falcon<\/strong><\/em> beating a hasty retreat and a <em><strong>Cuckoo<\/strong><\/em> was mobbed by <em><strong>Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> on a nearby fence post.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that our clients always appreciate is the amount of birdsong, and calls, that we hear while we&#8217;re out and about.\u00a0 There&#8217;s one call that I don&#8217;t think that could ever be described favourably, and that&#8217;s the discordant honking of <em><strong>Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Some days though, it&#8217;s almost a constant aural backdrop \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transition from winter, to spring, to summer often seems to come in little bursts, then suddenly it&#8217;s really the breeding season and the range of species we find on our trips is very different to just a few weeks earlier. 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