{"id":3857,"date":"2017-06-19T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2017-06-19T18:13:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:13:05","slug":"stoatally-amazing-druridge-bay-safari-160617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/stoatally-amazing-druridge-bay-safari-160617","title":{"rendered":"Stoatally amazing ;-) Druridge Bay Safari 16\/06\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Eileen, Malcolm and Ben from Newbiggin and we headed up the coast for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">day around Druridge Bay<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We started a bit further north, with <em><strong>Fulmars<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Kittiwakes<\/strong><\/em> battling the breeze as <em><strong>Common Whitethroats<\/strong><\/em> sang from deep cover and <em><strong>Shelduck<\/strong><\/em> sat on the sea far below our clifftop position.\u00a0 <em><strong>Common Swifts<\/strong><\/em> were heading southeast in numbers and we went the same way ourselves.\u00a0 A flycatching <em><strong>Grey Wagtail<\/strong><\/em> was jumping up from mid-stream rocks as Chiffchaffs darted around the trees and a stiff breeze was developing.\u00a0 Down into Druridge bay and <em><strong>Avocets, Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> provided a touch of elegance alongside dainty <em><strong>Little Gulls<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <em><strong>Blue-tailed Damselflies<\/strong><\/em> were remarkably obliging, tolerating Eileen and Malcolm&#8217;s cameras and not worrying about the close approach of smartphones either, but the real star of the afternoon was one of my favourite land mammals.\u00a0 Bounding along a fence line before disappearing to the grass, the <em><strong>Stoat<\/strong><\/em> was soon back out and running towards us, mobbed by <em><strong>Lapwings<\/strong><\/em> as it carried a <em><strong>Short-tailed Field Vole<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 A few minutes later and it was back out again, vanishing into a reedbed as the <em><strong>Lapwings<\/strong><\/em> continued to fret and panic. Nature, red in tooth and claw and just really impressive \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Eileen, Malcolm and Ben from Newbiggin and we headed up the coast for a day around Druridge Bay&#8230; We started a bit further north, with Fulmars and Kittiwakes battling the breeze as Common Whitethroats sang from deep cover and Shelduck sat on the sea far below our clifftop position.\u00a0 Common Swifts were heading [&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":[40,290,122,488,256,301,123,243,93,218,189,899,183,217,233,234],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-avocet","tag-blue-tailed-damselfly","tag-fulmar","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-kittiwake","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-little-gull","tag-sand-martin","tag-shelduck","tag-short-tailed-field-vole","tag-stoat","tag-swallow","tag-swift","tag-whitethroat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","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=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}