{"id":3348,"date":"2016-06-16T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T11:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2016-06-16T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T11:43:01","slug":"mini-beasts-in-the-mist-lindisfarne-safari-140616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/lindisfarne\/mini-beasts-in-the-mist-lindisfarne-safari-140616","title":{"rendered":"Mini-beasts in the mist; Lindisfarne Safari 14\/06\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with Malcolm and Jill and we headed across the causeway onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Holy Island<\/a>, in conditions that looked slightly misty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The simple song of a <em><strong>Reed Bunting<\/strong><\/em> echoed in the mist as the curious hypnotic &#8216;sharming&#8217; of a <em><strong>Water Rail<\/strong><\/em> came from deep in the reeds.\u00a0 As the mist thickened, visibility dropped and we walked around the north of the island, where swathes of <em><strong>orchids<\/strong><\/em> added a splash of colour to the grey of the morning.\u00a0 <em><strong>Garden Tiger<\/strong><\/em> caterpillars trundled across the paths in front of us and tiny <em><strong>hoverflies<\/strong><\/em> settled on flower petals.\u00a0 The mist cleared, warm sunshine broke through the thin veil&#8230;and then it got even mistier \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <em><strong>Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> watched us from long vegetation before bounding away across the fields as we continued our exploration of the ground around our feet. <em><strong>Reed Buntings<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Linnets<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>Stonechats<\/strong><\/em> were perched atop <em><strong>hawthorn<\/strong><\/em> bushes as <em><strong>Skylarks<\/strong><\/em> sang from high overhead and <em><strong>Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> parachuted back to ground in their display flight.\u00a0 With the tide falling and uncovering the road back to the mainland, and leaving <em><strong>Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> hauled out on sandbars, we headed back towards the car through as <em><strong>Sandwich Terns<\/strong><\/em> suddenly appeared from the mist taking a shortcut over the island and back out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>So much to see, whatever the weather \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met up with Malcolm and Jill and we headed across the causeway onto Holy Island, in conditions that looked slightly misty&#8230; The simple song of a Reed Bunting echoed in the mist as the curious hypnotic &#8216;sharming&#8217; of a Water Rail came from deep in the reeds.\u00a0 As the mist thickened, visibility dropped 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":[10],"tags":[778,835,767,140,207,776,127,223,191,215,237],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lindisfarne","tag-garden-tiger-moth","tag-grey-seal","tag-hoverflies","tag-linnet","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-orchid","tag-reed-bunting","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-skylark","tag-stonechat","tag-water-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","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=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}