{"id":3326,"date":"2016-06-07T08:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2016-06-07T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T07:34:25","slug":"when-the-north-wind-blows-lindisfarne-safari-020616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/lindisfarne\/when-the-north-wind-blows-lindisfarne-safari-020616","title":{"rendered":"When the north wind blows; Lindisfarne Safari 02\/06\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday was a Lindisfarne Safari<\/a> where we had the option of either staying on the island over the high tide period, or concentrating on the mainland sites in the Lindisfarne NNR…<\/p>\n

I collected Stephen and Kate from The Swan<\/a>, and we headed up the A1 to collect Gordon and Mandy for their 4th day out with NEWT.\u00a0 With a stiff chilly northerly breeze we decided that the mainland would be the better option, but we started on the Holy Island causeway.\u00a0 Knot<\/strong><\/em> were hunched against the wind on the mud as the rising tide approached, flocks of Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> flew just inches above the road and we had the opportunity to compare the size difference between Sandwich Tern<\/strong><\/em> and Little Tern<\/strong><\/em> as both species hovered obligingly close to each other over the South Low, diving into the water in pursuit of small fish.\u00a0 Curlew<\/strong><\/em> probed the mud on the periphery of the encroaching tide and Grey Seal<\/strong><\/em> were ‘bottling’ as they were lifted them from their low-tide haul outs by the water.\u00a0 The simple song of Reed Bunting<\/strong><\/em> carried on the breeze from their exposed perches on hawthorns and fence posts as ‘parachuting’ Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> displayed nearby.\u00a0 Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> were stunning in breeding plumage, and flocks of Ringed Plover<\/strong><\/em> were accompanied by Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> sporting the jet black bellies of the breeding season.\u00a0 Offshore, Eider<\/strong><\/em> were riding the impressive swell as Gannet<\/strong><\/em> and Fulmar<\/strong><\/em> soared on the wind, Common, Arctic<\/strong><\/em> and Sandwich Terns<\/strong><\/em> were plunging into the water, Shag<\/strong><\/em> and Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> flew by and lines of Puffin<\/strong><\/em>, Guillemot<\/strong><\/em> and Razorbill<\/strong><\/em> flew to and from the Farne Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday was a Lindisfarne Safari where we had the option of either staying on the island over the high tide period, or concentrating on the mainland sites in the Lindisfarne NNR… I collected Stephen and Kate from The Swan, and we headed up the A1 to collect Gordon and Mandy for their 4th day out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,10],"tags":[230,229,372,172,288,149,122,185,175,835,186,334,476,207,225,226,127,224,223,377],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-island","category-lindisfarne","tag-arctic-tern","tag-common-tern","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-eider","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-knot","tag-little-tern","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-reed-bunting","tag-ringed-plover","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-shag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}