{"id":3695,"date":"2017-01-31T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T16:13:39","slug":"the-icy-grip-of-a-cold-breeze-druridge-bay-mini-safari-260117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/the-icy-grip-of-a-cold-breeze-druridge-bay-mini-safari-260117","title":{"rendered":"The icy grip of a cold breeze; Druridge Bay mini-Safari 26\/01\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was a mini-Safari exploring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland<\/a> and the weather forecast had me donning layer after layer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected Chris and Carol from Church Point and we set off.\u00a0 Getting out of the car at our first destination it didn&#8217;t seem quite as cold as forecast &#8211; until we were facing into the wind, when it started to feel really chilly.\u00a0 <em><strong>Cormorant, Little Grebe, Red-breasted Merganser, Goosander<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> were all diving in search of fish and we continued on our way.\u00a0 A remarkable mixed flock of <em><strong>Twite, Turnstone, Pied Wagtail<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Sanderling<\/strong><\/em> were plundering an ad hoc feeding station on the beach and <em><strong>Wigeon, Teal, Mallard, Gadwall, Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Scaup<\/strong><\/em> were all dabbling as <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> noisily took flight, <em><strong>Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> were tossed about on the breeze and <em><strong>Starlings<\/strong><\/em> arrived at their evening roost, dispensing with the intricacies of a murmuration and diving straight into the shelter of the reeds.<\/p>\n<p>As dusk enveloped everything around we headed back to the car, serenaded by a chorus of <em><strong>Water Rails<\/strong><\/em> from deep within the reeds and with an icy cold breeze somehow making five layers not quite enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was a mini-Safari exploring Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland and the weather forecast had me donning layer after layer&#8230; I collected Chris and Carol from Church Point and we set off.\u00a0 Getting out of the car at our first destination it didn&#8217;t seem quite as cold as forecast &#8211; until we were facing into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[372,172,170,168,378,123,360,171,536,188,80,318,169,182,359,192,237,181],"class_list":["post-3695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-goosander","tag-lapwing","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-sanderling","tag-scaup","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-turnstone","tag-twite","tag-water-rail","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695","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=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}