{"id":3315,"date":"2016-05-26T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2016-05-26T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T08:33:10","slug":"small-things-druridge-bay-240516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/small-things-druridge-bay-240516","title":{"rendered":"Small things; Druridge Bay 24\/05\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waders<\/strong><\/em> are often spectacular, seabirds<\/strong><\/em> are enigmatic and raptors<\/strong><\/em> are, well, raptors, but sometimes the smaller birds deserve a lot more attention…<\/p>\n

I collected Stephen from North Shields for his 7th day trip with NEWT and we headed north to Druridge Bay<\/a>.\u00a0 Days out with Stephen are always enjoyableStarting in bright sunshine under blue skies, it soon clouded over, then cleared, then clouded again.\u00a0 Wigeon, Shoveler, Mallard, Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> and Gadwall<\/strong><\/em> all looked in excellent condition, and a Whimbrel<\/strong><\/em> was good to see.\u00a0 Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> had their feathers ruffled by a stiffening breeze as Swallows, Swifts, House Martins<\/strong><\/em> and Sand Martins<\/strong><\/em> were all feeding only a metre or so above the water.\u00a0 Tree Sparrows<\/strong><\/em> are always very smart looking birds and a male Yellowhammer<\/strong><\/em> provided an extraordinary touch of brilliant colour as the northerly wind brought the first spots of rain.\u00a0 As we sat eating lunch on the clifftop at Cresswell, Fulmars<\/strong><\/em> were gliding effortlessly by and a Rock Pipit<\/strong><\/em> appeared, carrying food back to it’s nest as the scratchy warble of a Whitethroat<\/strong><\/em> carried on the breeze.\u00a0 The rhythmic ranting of Reed Warbler<\/strong><\/em> and scattergun song of Sedge Warbler<\/strong><\/em> emanated from deep in the reeds and a Reed Warbler<\/strong><\/em> obligingly shuffled to the reed tops close to a singing male Reed Bunting<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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As we headed back to the car Swifts<\/strong><\/em> were racing by at head height and the wind seemed to be strengthening…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waders are often spectacular, seabirds are enigmatic and raptors are, well, raptors, but sometimes the smaller birds deserve a lot more attention… I collected Stephen from North Shields for his 7th day trip with NEWT and we headed north to Druridge Bay.\u00a0 Days out with Stephen are always enjoyableStarting in bright sunshine under blue skies, […]<\/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":[122,170,488,232,171,127,267,142,218,227,269,217,233,125,182,231,234,181,126],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-fulmar","tag-gadwall","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-house-martin","tag-mallard","tag-reed-bunting","tag-reed-warbler","tag-rock-pipit","tag-sand-martin","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-shoveler","tag-swallow","tag-swift","tag-tree-sparrow","tag-tufted-duck","tag-whimbrel","tag-whitethroat","tag-wigeon","tag-yellowhammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}