As I collected Len and Jean from Middleton Hall, the bright warm sunshine suggested that summer had genuinely arrived \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Heading down to the coast we explored a section of river that has produced regular Otter<\/strong><\/em> sightings.\u00a0 Hoverflies<\/strong><\/em> and bumblebees<\/strong><\/em> were exploring riverside flowers, a Scorpion Fly<\/strong><\/em> became the focus of Len’s lens and, as Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff<\/strong><\/em> and Chaffinch<\/strong><\/em> sang from nearby bushes, Mallards<\/strong><\/em> paddled along the river with their ducklings.\u00a0 A high-pitched mewing preceded the appearance of a Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/em> over a nearby hillside, twisting, turning and soaring in the rising heat as Black-headed Gulls<\/strong><\/em> drifted in and out of view dipping towards the river before climbing again.<\/p>\n The buzz of insects on a warm summer morning, is there anything that epitomises June any more than that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I collected Len and Jean from Middleton Hall, the bright warm sunshine suggested that summer had genuinely arrived \ud83d\ude42 Heading down to the coast we explored a section of river that has produced regular Otter sightings.\u00a0 Hoverflies and bumblebees were exploring riverside flowers, a Scorpion Fly became the focus of Len’s lens and, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[271,782,102,268,148,645,171,780,213],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northumberland-coast","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-bumblebee","tag-chaffinch","tag-chiffchaff","tag-common-buzzard","tag-hoverfly","tag-mallard","tag-scorpion-fly","tag-willow-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","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=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}