{"id":4159,"date":"2017-11-05T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2017-11-05T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T15:32:46","slug":"other-worldly-lindisfarne-safari-021117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/lindisfarne\/other-worldly-lindisfarne-safari-021117","title":{"rendered":"Other-worldly; Lindisfarne Safari 02\/11\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday’s Lindisfarne Safari<\/a> was a stranding trip, with our plan to cross onto the island just before the tide cut it off and then stay there until the causeway cleared again.\u00a0 I collected Sue, for her 6th trip with NEWT, from Old Swarland and then we headed to Alnwick to collect Paul, Edith, Jan and Astrid from Greycroft<\/a>, where it was lovely to see Audrey who was giving them the eminently sensible advice of dressing with plenty of layers…<\/p>\n

It had been a lovely morning, with blue skies and fluffy white clouds, as I left home, but the further north we got, the murkier the weather looked.\u00a0 As we reached the causeway, with Curlew, Common Redshank, Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> and Bar-tailed Godwit<\/strong><\/em> all foraging along the edge of the rising tide, there was a steady drenching drizzle and waterproofs were needed once we were over on the island.\u00a0 Blackbirds<\/strong><\/em> and Robins<\/strong><\/em> seemed to be everywhere we looked, Goldcrests<\/strong><\/em> were flitting restlessly in the pursuit of insects and with St Cuthbert’s Island cut off by the rising water Bar-tailed Godwits<\/strong><\/em> and Oystercatchers<\/strong><\/em> had arrived to roost en masse.\u00a0 House Sparrows<\/strong><\/em> are one of the most noticeable features of a day on Holy Island and there they were; in every bush and on every rooftop they paid little attention to us as we walked by.\u00a0 Spiky-haired Red-breasted Mergansers<\/strong><\/em> were splashing in the shallower water as Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> swam in deeper channels and a Kestrel<\/strong><\/em> was toughing it out in the stiff breeze and drizzle.\u00a0 Common Snipe<\/strong><\/em> were busying themselves among the reed edges and a Woodcock<\/strong><\/em>, heavy-bodied and long-billed, flew by.\u00a0 A flock of Fieldfare<\/strong><\/em> and Redwing<\/strong><\/em> looked to be newly arrived and we made a short migration ourselves – to the cafe!\u00a0 Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> flocks decorated the sky and, as we explored the remains of the early medieval farmstead at Green Shiel, and Pale-bellied Brent Geese<\/strong><\/em> speckled the gradually exposed mud, a sunset of burnt orange illuminated the western horizon as the dark tendrils of dusk curled around the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday’s Lindisfarne Safari was a stranding trip, with our plan to cross onto the island just before the tide cut it off and then stay there until the causeway cleared again.\u00a0 I collected Sue, for her 6th trip with NEWT, from Old Swarland and then we headed to Alnwick to collect Paul, Edith, Jan and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,10],"tags":[147,133,172,23,135,175,835,160,128,243,210,108,188,22,116,204,71],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-island","category-lindisfarne","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-blackbird","tag-curlew","tag-fieldfare","tag-goldcrest","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-seal","tag-house-sparrow","tag-kestrel","tag-little-egret","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pale-bellied-brent-goose","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-redwing","tag-robin","tag-snipe","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}