The easiest wildlife to engage with is often the small stuff that we might walk by on our way to search for something bigger…<\/p>\n
I collected Flora, Pete, Katie (‘the Awesome’!), Joe and Madeleine from Church Point and we set out for a morning exploring around Druridge Pools.\u00a0 Once I’d armed everyone with sample pots, hand lenses and magnifiers, Ragwort<\/strong><\/em> was scrutinised closely for Cinnabar moth<\/strong><\/em> caterpillars and they were soon tracked down and subjected to close inspection.\u00a0 Spiders, slugs, snails, bees, hoverflies<\/strong><\/em> and a Small Copper<\/strong><\/em> butterfly were also potted and looked at in detail.\u00a0 Much further along the size spectrum, Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong><\/em> and Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> offered ‘scope-filling views and empty Swallow<\/strong><\/em> nests were easily accessible.\u00a0 Common Darters<\/strong><\/em> stayed just beyond our reach, and soon a whole morning had passed and it was time to head back to Newbiggin.<\/p>\n Our family wildlife safaris are carefully tailored to keep all ages engaged and we’ve got lots of options including mini-beasting, badger-watching and bat detecting.\u00a0 Give us a call on 01670 827465 to see what we can do for you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The easiest wildlife to engage with is often the small stuff that we might walk by on our way to search for something bigger… I collected Flora, Pete, Katie (‘the Awesome’!), Joe and Madeleine from Church Point and we set out for a morning exploring around Druridge Pools.\u00a0 Once I’d armed everyone with sample pots, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[451,242,583,335,416,283,291],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-barn-swallow","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-cinnabar-moth","tag-common-darter","tag-family-wildlife-events","tag-grey-heron","tag-small-copper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}