{"id":3372,"date":"2016-07-05T10:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2016-07-05T10:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:57:18","slug":"im-really-scared-of-birds-farne-islands-safari-300616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/farnes\/im-really-scared-of-birds-farne-islands-safari-300616","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m really scared of birds&#8221;; Farne Islands Safari 30\/06\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late June, a big part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Farne Islands<\/a> experience is the aerial bombardment you&#8217;re subjected to as <em><strong>Arctic Terns<\/strong><\/em> defend their eggs and chicks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected John from Bedlington, Colin and Martin from Morpeth and then Sue from Old Swarland (for her 4th trip with NEWT).\u00a0 A breezy but warm morning brought <em><strong>Curlew, Yellowhammer, Grey Seal, Shelduck<\/strong><\/em> and a <em><strong>Brown Hare<\/strong><\/em> running though short vegetation right on the shoreline.\u00a0 After lunch overlooking the Farne Islands we boarded the St Cuthbert and headed out of Seahouses Harbour.\u00a0 We were soon being passed by <em><strong>Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Gannets <\/strong><\/em>and soon the unmistakeable sound, and smell, of the seabird colony reached the boat.\u00a0 Landing on Inner Farne brought the expected mob of angry <em><strong>terns<\/strong><\/em> and we watched the tiny beak of an <em><strong>Arctic Tern<\/strong><\/em> chick as it chipped way at the eggshell surrounding it.\u00a0 <em><strong>Fulmars<\/strong><\/em> arced along the cliff tops, <em><strong>Kittiwakes<\/strong><\/em> were hanging on the strong breeze just a few metres away from us, <em><strong>Sandwich<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Common Terns<\/strong><\/em> flew by without molesting us and <em><strong>Puffins<\/strong><\/em> peeked from their burrows.\u00a0 As we walked through the courtyard a lady walked by in the other direction; head down, hood pulled up and explaining to her friends how she&#8217;s really scared of birds.\u00a0 Inner Farne probably wasn&#8217;t the best choice of visitor attraction then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late June, a big part of the Farne Islands experience is the aerial bombardment you&#8217;re subjected to as Arctic Terns defend their eggs and chicks&#8230; I collected John from Bedlington, Colin and Martin from Morpeth and then Sue from Old Swarland (for her 4th trip with NEWT).\u00a0 A breezy but warm morning brought Curlew, [&hellip;]<\/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":[230,271,57,229,372,149,185,835,186,301,225,226,223,377,126],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farnes","tag-arctic-tern","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-tern","tag-cormorant","tag-eider","tag-gannet","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-kittiwake","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-shag","tag-yellowhammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}