October is a fantastic month to be out birdwatching on the Northumberland coast.\u00a0 If we haven’t had the mist, drizzle and easterly winds to shower us with migrants, there’s always a wealth of wintering and passage waders and wildfowl to enjoy…<\/p>\n
I collected Alison, Jon, Sally and Andrew from Tughall and we set out for a day on the coast.\u00a0 Alison and Jon had been out with us two years ago, on a day that featured a stuffed badger in the back of a police car<\/a>! Heading north towards Lindisfarne<\/a> we soon came across Greenshank, Redshank, Ruff, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong><\/em> and Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> by the roadside.\u00a0 Then it was the turn of wildfowl to take centre stage; Teal, Wigeon, Shelduck<\/strong><\/em> and Greylag, Pink-footed, Barnacle<\/strong><\/em> and Pale-bellied Brent Geese<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Bar-tailed Godwit<\/strong><\/em> and Curlew<\/strong><\/em> were probing the mud along the shore line as a Red-throated Diver<\/strong><\/em> sat serenely just offshore and the moaning wails of Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> drifted across the low-tide mud.\u00a0 Back to Tughall for lunch and then we were away again, this time heading south towards Druridge Bay<\/a>.\u00a0 In sublime light, but with an ever strengthening breeze, a Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> seemed to glow as it’s breast feathers were fanned out into an impressive ruff by the wind.\u00a0 Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> just got on with being as cute as ever, Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> stalked along the water’s edge, occasionally breaking off to dispute feeding locations and Gadwall, Mallard, Teal, Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> and Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> were all resplendent in the sunshine.\u00a0 A great day out, and no dead wildlife was stroked, fondled or petted \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October is a fantastic month to be out birdwatching on the Northumberland coast.\u00a0 If we haven’t had the mist, drizzle and easterly winds to shower us with migrants, there’s always a wealth of wintering and passage waders and wildfowl to enjoy… I collected Alison, Jon, Sally and Andrew from Tughall and we set out for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,141],"tags":[147,276,242,172,288,170,332,283,835,190,243,360,171,108,129,69,358,241,189,169,182,181],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-lindisfarne","category-northumberland-coast","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-barnacle-goose","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-gadwall","tag-greenshank","tag-grey-heron","tag-grey-seal","tag-greylag-goose","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-pale-bellied-brent-goose","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-red-throated-diver","tag-redshank","tag-ruff","tag-shelduck","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","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=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}