Pat and Jenny’s second day out with NEWT was to a location that really comes into it’s own during the winter…<\/p>\n
Bar-tailed Godwit, Purple Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Grey Plover, Common Redshank<\/strong><\/em> and Turnstone<\/strong><\/em> were all showing well on the rocks below us and I started scanning just beyond the bay, and there were 7 Bottlenose Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> heading south \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 One of them was an incredibly distinctive animal that we first encountered in Northumberland last winter and this latest sighting will be added to our database of dolphins re-sighted close to our shores.\u00a0 Heading across to Holy Island dense flocks of Golden Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> and Knot<\/strong><\/em> filled the air and we enjoyed views of both Dark-bellied<\/strong><\/em> and Pale-bellied Brent Geese <\/strong><\/em>as well as Greylag, Pink-footed <\/strong><\/em>and Barnacle Geese<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Skylarks<\/strong><\/em> put in an appearance too, always a nice bird to see as they’re scarce in Northumberland during the winter, and then potentially the bird of the day remained unidentified as a distant ‘ringtail’ harrier<\/strong><\/em> made a brief appearance in the dunes on the north side of the island before disappearing from view.\u00a0 The one that got away…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pat and Jenny’s second day out with NEWT was to a location that really comes into it’s own during the winter… Bar-tailed Godwit, Purple Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Grey Plover, Common Redshank and Turnstone were all showing well on the rocks below us and I started scanning just beyond the bay, and there were 7 Bottlenose Dolphins […]<\/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":[276,330,556,173,288,175,400,190,334,210,108,129,176,191,359],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lindisfarne","tag-barnacle-goose","tag-bottlenose-dolphin","tag-common-redshank","tag-dark-bellied-brent-goose","tag-dunlin","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-plover","tag-greylag-goose","tag-knot","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pale-bellied-brent-goose","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-skylark","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}