{"id":417,"date":"2010-02-05T08:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T08:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-06-05T04:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T04:29:46","slug":"majestic-magnificent-northumberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/photography\/majestic-magnificent-northumberland","title":{"rendered":"A cold walk and a varied week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had another week of meetings (and late-cancellations of meetings as well) with a wide enough range of topics to keep me on my toes.\u00a0 I’ve enrolled on the Natural History Society of Northumbria ‘Lichens and Bryophytes’ course and the first session was on Monday; my use of dichotomous keys as an aid to identification has been sporadic previously, but now I’ve got to learn.\u00a0 A one-to-one clinic on Wednesday, discussing the new Northumberland brand and ways to enhance our own marketing, gave me lots of new ideas.\u00a0 Most valuable of all though was a meeting later that afternoon with one of Northumberland’s major land owners, discussing species conservation, land management, nature tourism and access to the prime natural history areas of his estate.\u00a0 New NEWT products are on the way…<\/p>\n

As I sat in the office yesterday afternoon, staring at the cold gloom outside, I had a call from my good friend, and bird race team-mate, Iain.\u00a0 He was complaining about being stuck in his office on such a lovely sunny afternoon.\u00a0 His office is only 20 miles up the road from ours, but was blessed with much better weather.<\/p>\n

One thing that unpromising weather does give me time for is processing a few images from the last month.\u00a0 With the launch of our new website Northern Experience Images<\/a>\u00a0I needed to do a reasonable amount of uploading.\u00a0 Here a just a few from last Saturday, when the temperature was somewhat lower than it is now and myself, Sarah and Andy had a walk along the coast from Embleton towards Dunstanburgh Castle.<\/p>\n

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Dunstanburgh Castle from Embleton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dunstanburgh
Dunstanburgh Castle from Embleton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dunstanburgh
Dunstanburgh Castle and boulder beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Boulders
Boulders at dusk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was cold, really cold.\u00a0 As we walked back through the dunes in the dark, there was a bitter northerly wind and it felt like a real wilderness.\u00a0 Winter, my favourite time of the year (until the green shoots of spring begin to appear anyway…).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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