{"id":3771,"date":"2017-04-19T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2017-04-19T18:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:25:15","slug":"game-on-north-pennines-safari-190417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/pennines\/game-on-north-pennines-safari-190417","title":{"rendered":"Game on; North Pennines Safari 19\/04\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Steph from her home in Gateshead, for the first of four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/15\" target=\"_blank\">North Pennines<\/a> trips I&#8217;m guiding over the next week, and we headed westwards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A <em><strong>Greyhen<\/strong><\/em>, hunkered down against the wind and rain in roadside vegetation, was fairly obliging as <em><strong>Snipe, Curlew<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> displayed overhead and a <em><strong>Blackcock<\/strong><\/em> sat motionless in a nearby field.\u00a0 <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em>, after <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em>, after <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em>, followed and offered great photo opportunities for Steph, although the <em><strong>Brown Hares<\/strong><\/em> we came across weren&#8217;t hanging around to have their picture taken!\u00a0 Then it was the turn of <em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em>, with a handsome <em><strong>Blackcock<\/strong><\/em> on the moor close to the car, soon followed by two more feeding out in the open.\u00a0 Drumming <em><strong>Snipe<\/strong><\/em> and displaying <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> took cover as the rain intensified, but each break in the weather was filled with birds; <em><strong>Black Grouse, Red Grouse, Common Snipe, Curlew, Common Redshank, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Golden Plover, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Goosander<\/strong><\/em> and towards the end of the trip, a male <em><strong>Ring Ouzel<\/strong><\/em> perched on a fence post, a <em><strong>Grey Partridge<\/strong><\/em> on a dry stone wall next to the road and a pair of <em><strong>Peregrine<\/strong><\/em> engaged in a display flight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Steph from her home in Gateshead, for the first of four North Pennines trips I&#8217;m guiding over the next week, and we headed westwards&#8230; A Greyhen, hunkered down against the wind and rain in roadside vegetation, was fairly obliging as Snipe, Curlew and Lapwing displayed overhead and a Blackcock sat motionless in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[54,57,556,373,172,175,378,117,128,123,207,210,55,208,263,191,131],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennines","tag-black-grouse","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-redshank","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-goosander","tag-grey-partridge","tag-kestrel","tag-lapwing","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-oystercatcher","tag-peregrine","tag-red-grouse","tag-ring-ouzel","tag-skylark","tag-sparrowhawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}