When we’re heading to the coast, and a generally easterly wind is accompanied by mist and drizzle, my pulse starts racing…<\/p>\n
I collected Clare and Peter from The Swan<\/a> and we headed north to collect Phil and Susan from the Lindisfarne Hotel<\/a>.\u00a0 Holy Island can be a migrant hotspot, and the number of Song Thrushes<\/strong><\/em> suggested that there had been a recent arrival.\u00a0 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Garden Warbler, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Robin, Dunnock, Linnet<\/strong><\/em> and Blackbird<\/strong><\/em> were all in the Vicar’s Garden, along with Pied<\/strong><\/em> and Spotted Flycatchers<\/strong><\/em> that were so busy being intolerant of each other that they weren’t doing too much flycatching.\u00a0 Walking along the lonnens produced Reed Bunting, Dunnock, Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch<\/strong><\/em> and more Robins<\/strong><\/em> then we settled into position to scan the mudflats.\u00a0 Curlew, Redshank, Greenshank, Ruff, Dunlin, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Grey Plover<\/strong><\/em> and Bar-tailed Godwit<\/strong><\/em> scoured the oozing mud and silvery creeks as the mournful wailing of Grey Seal<\/strong><\/em> carried on the breeze and Brent Geese, Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> and Teal<\/strong><\/em> shifted position as the rising tide disturbed them from the water’s edge.<\/p>\n In the shadow of Bamburgh Castle, as the weather deteriorated, Knot, Turnstone<\/strong><\/em> and Purple Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em> were picking their way through piles of seaweed as Eider<\/strong><\/em> rode effortlessly over the waves just beyond them and the heavy drizzle brought an end to our day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we’re heading to the coast, and a generally easterly wind is accompanied by mist and drizzle, my pulse starts racing… I collected Clare and Peter from The Swan and we headed north to collect Phil and Susan from the Lindisfarne Hotel.\u00a0 Holy Island can be a migrant hotspot, and the number of Song Thrushes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[147,133,102,268,172,159,149,617,135,103,332,400,835,334,140,243,207,210,108,723,176,358,127,116,241,145,285,169,359,181,213],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lindisfarne","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-blackbird","tag-chaffinch","tag-chiffchaff","tag-curlew","tag-dunnock","tag-eider","tag-garden-warbler","tag-goldcrest","tag-goldfinch","tag-greenshank","tag-grey-plover","tag-grey-seal","tag-knot","tag-linnet","tag-little-egret","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pale-bellied-brent-goose","tag-pied-flycatcher","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-redshank","tag-reed-bunting","tag-robin","tag-ruff","tag-song-thrush","tag-spotted-flycatcher","tag-teal","tag-turnstone","tag-wigeon","tag-willow-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}