{"id":362,"date":"2010-01-01T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2012-04-07T05:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T05:27:41","slug":"all-is-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/photography\/all-is-quiet","title":{"rendered":"All is quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world around\u00a0us was cloaked in white\u00a0as we walked home from The Swan early this morning.\u00a0 A Tawny Owl was calling from the woods, but there was little other sound – muffled as it was by the snow.\u00a0 By the time we woke up, there was a lot more snow than there had been when we finally fell into bed.\u00a0 To shake off the lingering after-effects of Old Year’s Night we decided to take a walk around Choppington Woods, wrapped up warm and armed with a camera.\u00a0 Photography, rather than birdwatching was our main aim, and that was fortunate as\u00a0there were a lot more birds in our garden than we encountered on the walk; Great, Blue, Coal and Willow Tits, Greenfinch, Chaffinch and Bullfinch, Robin, Wren, Dunnock and Blackbird were around the feeders and, bird of the day, a Common Buzzard flying north over our allotment.\u00a0 Snow can make a relatively mundane landscape into a photogenic delight, but exposure calculations can be tricky and we spent a lot of time checking compositions and looking for obvious ‘lead-in’ lines.\u00a0 As we made our way back towards home 350 Pink-footed Geese flew south overhead.\u00a0 Moving ahead of more wintry weather maybe?<\/p>\n

\"The
The view from our patio 01\/01\/2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Willowburn
Willowburn Pasture and a frozen flood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Following
Following in a Moorhen's footsteps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Choppington
Choppington Woods pond from the new boardwalk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sarah
Sarah scanning the trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Footpath
Footpath and fence along the Willow Water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world around\u00a0us was cloaked in white\u00a0as we walked home from The Swan early this morning.\u00a0 A Tawny Owl was calling from the woods, but there was little other sound – muffled as it was by the snow.\u00a0 By the time we woke up, there was a lot more snow than there had been when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,16],"tags":[823,46,27,53,102,35,101,45,75,129,78,28],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choppington-woods-northumberland","category-photography","tag-birdwatching","tag-blue-tit","tag-bullfinch","tag-buzzard","tag-chaffinch","tag-choppington-woods","tag-coal-tit","tag-great-tit","tag-greenfinch","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-tawny-owl","tag-willow-tit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}