{"id":3257,"date":"2016-03-27T18:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2016-03-27T18:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T17:31:47","slug":"spring-has-sprung-druridge-bay-mini-safari-250316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/spring-has-sprung-druridge-bay-mini-safari-250316","title":{"rendered":"Spring has sprung&#8230;; Druridge Bay mini-Safari 25\/03\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving at Church Point to collect Eddie and Carol the first thing that struck me was just how nice the weather was.\u00a0 Good Friday and nice weather combined to make much of the coast incredibly busy, so we just headed to places that I knew would have less people and more wildlife&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> were stalking along the water&#8217;s edge as a <em><strong>Red-breasted Merganser <\/strong><\/em>was looking outrageously resplendent on the water and <em><strong>Oystercatcher<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Redshank<\/strong><\/em> were demonstrating the rising hormone levels associated with the time of year \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <em><strong>Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> were drying their wings in the sunshine, <em><strong>Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> are still hanging on in the winter haunts, although in diminishing numbers, <em><strong>Great Crested Grebe<\/strong><\/em> are back at breeding sites and there was a real early spring feel to everything as a female <em><strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> drifted back and forth over the reedbeds, briefly in the air close to a <em><strong>Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/em>, allowing an easy comparison between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely weather, lovely clients and an interesting chat about the ethics of wildlife watching and wildlife photography.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t think of a better way to start the Easter weekend \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving at Church Point to collect Eddie and Carol the first thing that struck me was just how nice the weather was.\u00a0 Good Friday and nice weather combined to make much of the coast incredibly busy, so we just headed to places that I knew would have less people and more wildlife&#8230; Little Egret and [&hellip;]<\/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":[148,372,172,168,488,243,397,210,188,358],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-common-buzzard","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-goldeneye","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-little-egret","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-oystercatcher","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-redshank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}