{"id":413,"date":"2010-01-29T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-05-28T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T16:40:25","slug":"deskbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/deskbound","title":{"rendered":"Deskbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not something I particularly enjoy but I&#8217;m currently trying to juggle at least four separate projects ahead of the &#8216;busy season&#8217; starting in February.\u00a0 That means a lot of time in the office and birdwatching limited to our garden and the edge of Choppington Woods.\u00a0 After a couple of months of the Chaffinch flock containing almost exclusively male birds (the species scientific name <em>Fringilla coelebs<\/em> means &#8216;Bachelor Finch&#8217; &#8211; a reference to the habit of male and female birds wintering separately in parts of it&#8217;s range).\u00a0 now though, the girls are back.\u00a0 The party&#8217;s over, boys.<\/p>\n<p>This morning has seen the Press Release about an exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/northeastcetaceans.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/exciting-new-dolphin-project-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">offshore survey project<\/a> that NEWT is a partner in.\u00a0 Working with Natural England and Marinelife, with additional support\u00a0 from the Northumberland and Tyneside Bird Club, we&#8217;re furthering the existing knowledge of seabird and cetacean distribution in the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p>As I look out of the window this morning there&#8217;s a howling northerly and it&#8217;s snowing.\u00a0 Back to the wintry weather \ud83d\ude42 and a weekend of birdwatching, photography and filming wildlife ahead for all three NEWT guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not something I particularly enjoy but I&#8217;m currently trying to juggle at least four separate projects ahead of the &#8216;busy season&#8217; starting in February.\u00a0 That means a lot of time in the office and birdwatching limited to our garden and the edge of Choppington Woods.\u00a0 After a couple of months of the Chaffinch flock containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,98,105,5,104],"tags":[823,91,35,94,156,825],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-choppington-woods-northumberland","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","category-surveys","tag-birdwatching","tag-cetaceans","tag-choppington-woods","tag-marinelife","tag-natural-england","tag-northumberland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}