{"id":2927,"date":"2015-06-10T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:24:20","slug":"wind-tunnel-north-pennines-safari-06062015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/farnes\/wind-tunnel-north-pennines-safari-06062015","title":{"rendered":"Wind tunnel; North Pennines Safari 06\/06\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I arrived at Waren Mill to collect Kevin and Chris, things weren’t looking promising for our planned Farne Islands<\/a> Safari.\u00a0 We drove down to the sea at Bamburgh and a quick look told me all I needed to know; there really was no chance of boats sailing out of Seahouses with the frothy white sea being driven by a strengthening southwesterly breeze.\u00a0 A quick discussion revealed a few species that Chris hasn’t seen yet, and we headed southwest towards the North Pennines<\/a> to try and catch up with a couple of those.<\/p>\n

Ring Ouzel<\/strong><\/em> was first up on our revised ‘shopping list’ and we got out of the car, only to discover that it was now so windy that standing upright was a challenge!\u00a0 We were close to a nest site, and I’ve spent enough years there to know that the birds feed in an area of short grass and clumps of rush just below the narrow secluded valley where they nest.\u00a0 A couple of minutes later I was scanning along the line of a drystone wall – and a male Ring Ouzel<\/strong><\/em> hopped out from behind a clump of rush \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 After a few minutes, enjoying good views of the ‘Mountain Blackbird’ as he crossed the rough pasture, we continued on our way.\u00a0 Curlew, Red Grouse, Golden Plover, Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> and a Woodcock<\/strong><\/em>, contentedly digging worms out of the earth, were all seen as we headed towards the next species on Chris’s target list.\u00a0 Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> can be a difficult bird to find in the middle of the day, but I knew where I would expect them to be, and Kevin quickly spotted a dark head, with the tell-tale huge red eyebrow, poking up from the dense grassland.\u00a0 More Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> followed and we headed across to the coast in search of a third lifer for Chris.\u00a0 The howling wind appeared to be driving a storm in our direction, and we just managed to find a Roseate Tern<\/strong><\/em> before the first rain drops started pattering on our heads \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I arrived at Waren Mill to collect Kevin and Chris, things weren’t looking promising for our planned Farne Islands Safari.\u00a0 We drove down to the sea at Bamburgh and a quick look told me all I needed to know; there really was no chance of boats sailing out of Seahouses with the frothy white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[54,172,175,123,208,263,274,71],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farnes","category-pennines","tag-black-grouse","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-lapwing","tag-red-grouse","tag-ring-ouzel","tag-roseate-tern","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}