Returning clients are always a pleasure, and as a business it’s a great vote of confidence that we’re doing the right thing…<\/p>\n
I collected Lindsay and Abbie from Felton, for their second trip with NEWT after a Kielder Safari in 2012<\/a>, and we headed down to Druridge Bay to collect Simon for his third trip with us, after a stunning pelagic trip in 2012<\/a> and a day on the coast in 2014<\/a>.\u00a0 The day featured a lot of the birds that are regular on the Northumberland coast in the winter; mixed flocks of passerines around feeders included, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Great Tit, Tree Sparrow<\/strong><\/em> and Long-tailed Tit<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Eider<\/strong><\/em> rode nonchalantly over the swell near to the shore, Goldeneye, Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Mallard, Wigeon, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> were dabbling or diving and the end of the day brought two scarcities.\u00a0 Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em> may be a common wintering bird on the sea off Northumberland, but seeing one on a pond is much more unusual.\u00a0 Black-necked Grebe<\/strong><\/em> is an uncommon winter visitor to Northumberland, but a gem in black and white and a great way to finish the day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Returning clients are always a pleasure, and as a business it’s a great vote of confidence that we’re doing the right thing… I collected Lindsay and Abbie from Felton, for their second trip with NEWT after a Kielder Safari in 2012, and we headed down to Druridge Bay to collect Simon for his third trip […]<\/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":[605,46,102,101,67,149,168,103,45,75,360,121,171,169,125,182,181],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-black-necked-grebe","tag-blue-tit","tag-chaffinch","tag-coal-tit","tag-common-scoter","tag-eider","tag-goldeneye","tag-goldfinch","tag-great-tit","tag-greenfinch","tag-little-grebe","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-mallard","tag-teal","tag-tree-sparrow","tag-tufted-duck","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","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=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}