{"id":3077,"date":"2015-09-22T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T15:32:49","slug":"wilderness-north-pennines-safari-15092015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/pennines\/wilderness-north-pennines-safari-15092015","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness; North Pennines Safari 15\/09\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little sign of human habitation, miles and miles of rolling hills, heather moorland and the occasional small stream and isolated lough for additional interest.\u00a0 A day in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=12\" target=\"_blank\">North Pennines<\/a> is an intriguingly different prospect after a couple of days on the coast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected Clare and Peter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theswanchoppington.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Swan<\/a> and we headed southwest into the interior wilderness of the North Pennines.\u00a0 Our main target for the day didn&#8217;t put up the elusive fight that I expected, as we were no sooner on higher ground than Peter spotted a <em><strong>Greyhen<\/strong><\/em> sitting on a dry stone wall.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Blackcock<\/strong><\/em> was feeding in the rough pasture nearby, and suddenly broke off to engage in a couple of minutes of unexpected solo display.\u00a0 More <em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> followed throughout the day and <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> popped up in the heather every few metres.\u00a0 <em><strong>Kestrels<\/strong><\/em> hovered over the fells, <em><strong>Common Buzzards<\/strong><\/em> soared along ridges and a flock of <em><strong>Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> was an unexpected find.\u00a0 <em><strong>Swallows<\/strong><\/em> swooped low over streams, fattening up in preparation for the long journey ahead of them, <em><strong>Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Lapwing, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> were around the edges of a lough in the shadow of Hadrian&#8217;s Wall and the day wouldn&#8217;t have been complete without a charm of <em><strong>Goldfinches<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little sign of human habitation, miles and miles of rolling hills, heather moorland and the occasional small stream and isolated lough for additional interest.\u00a0 A day in the North Pennines is an intriguingly different prospect after a couple of days on the coast&#8230; I collected Clare and Peter from The Swan and we headed southwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[54,242,148,175,103,400,571,128,123,207,208,169,181],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennines","tag-black-grouse","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-common-buzzard","tag-golden-plover","tag-goldfinch","tag-grey-plover","tag-hadrians-wall","tag-kestrel","tag-lapwing","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-red-grouse","tag-teal","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","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=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}