{"id":3853,"date":"2017-06-19T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T16:53:53","slug":"wet-and-windy-farne-islands-safari-150617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/farnes\/wet-and-windy-farne-islands-safari-150617","title":{"rendered":"Wet and windy; Farne Islands Safari 15\/06\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Richard and Chris, Anne and Howard and Paul and Julie from Seahouses and we headed a little way down the coast to visit the Arctic and Little Tern colony before heading back to Seahouses for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a trip across to Inner Farne<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The dunes were a hive of activity in the warm sunshine; <em><strong>Common Blue butterflies, Yellow Shell, Cinnabar<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>burnet moths<\/strong><\/em> and an impressive display of our county flower, <em><strong>Bloody Cranesbill<\/strong><\/em>, before we reached the terns.\u00a0 After lunch it was time to board Glad Tidings and head towards the &#8216;Galapagos of the North&#8217;.\u00a0 <em><strong>Eiders<\/strong><\/em> were escorting their chicks around the harbour and the first <em><strong>Puffins<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Guillemots<\/strong><\/em> were sitting on the sea just out of the pier ends.\u00a0 As we approached the islands, in a strengthening breeze, the number of birds increased dramatically\u00a0 with lines of <em><strong>Guillemot<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Puffin<\/strong><\/em>, and the odd <em><strong>Razorbill<\/strong><\/em>, streaming back to their nests and hungry chicks.\u00a0 <em><strong>Gannets<\/strong><\/em> soared by and the sound, and smell, of a cliff full of <em><strong>Kittiwakes<\/strong><\/em> was an all-out assault on the senses.\u00a0 Grey Seals were lazing on the rocks and we landed on Inner Farne with it&#8217;s remarkably obliging <em><strong>Shags, Guillemots, Puffins<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Sandwich, Arctic<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Common Terns.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What can we say about the Farne Islands?\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t already visited them, start making your plans \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Richard and Chris, Anne and Howard and Paul and Julie from Seahouses and we headed a little way down the coast to visit the Arctic and Little Tern colony before heading back to Seahouses for a trip across to Inner Farne&#8230; The dunes were a hive of activity in the warm sunshine; Common [&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":[230,487,583,482,229,149,122,185,835,301,225,226,897],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farnes","tag-arctic-tern","tag-bloody-cranesbill","tag-cinnabar-moth","tag-common-blue","tag-common-tern","tag-eider","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-grey-seal","tag-kittiwake","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-yellow-shell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","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=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}