Sitting and eating lunch overlooking the islands, the one thing that was really obvious was that the sea was calm, it wasn’t really windy and it wasn’t raining – so much for those forecasts then \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We boarded Glad Tidings VII and headed towards the inner group of islands.\u00a0 Puffins, Guillemots<\/strong><\/em> and Razorbills<\/strong><\/em> were all heading back to their nests with food, Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> were lazing around on the rocks and the sound, and smell, of the islands intensified.\u00a0 The onomatopaeic calls of Kittiwake<\/strong><\/em> echoed off the cliffs and a leucistic Guillemot<\/strong><\/em> caught my eye as it sat on the rocks amongst all of it’s regular-coloured relatives.<\/p>\n Once we landed on Inner Farne, the Puffins<\/strong><\/em> took centre stage.\u00a0 We watched as they headed back towards their burrows, only to be harried by Black-headed Gulls<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 One Puffin<\/strong><\/em> dropped it’s load of small fish right next to us, it’s wingbeats whirring audibly just over our heads as it tried to evade it’s pursuers.\u00a0 Large, ungainly, and very, very fluffy Shag<\/strong><\/em> chicks had grown to big to be contained in their nests and the grumpy moaning of the assembled auks<\/strong><\/em> added to the wall of sound.\u00a0 Sandwich, Common<\/strong><\/em> and Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> were all tending eggs or chicks, with the Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> being as feisty as ever, and a couple of them taking a particular dislike to Rose’s hat!\u00a0 As we walked back down the jetty to sail back to the mainland, Rose’s sharp eyes spotted one of those birds that are so cryptic in some habitats as a Ringed Plover<\/strong><\/em> dashed around between pebbles and rocks on the shore line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a Farne Islands Safari on Wedneday, I’d been keeping an even closer eye than usual on the weather forecast and particularly the forecast sea state and swell height.\u00a0 1m waves, strong NE winds and heavy rain wasn’t the most promising of forecasts… I collected Paul and Rose from the Dunstanburgh Castle Hotel and we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[230,271,277,229,835,186,143,301,123,499,207,225,127,224,218,223,269,191,217,233],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farnes","tag-arctic-tern","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-common-gull","tag-common-tern","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-herring-gull","tag-kittiwake","tag-lapwing","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-puffin","tag-reed-bunting","tag-ringed-plover","tag-sand-martin","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-shoveler","tag-skylark","tag-swallow","tag-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Common](\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160615-DSC_4362-200x300.jpg\")
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