I collected Judy and Gary, Jess and Jarrod, and Ben from Whitley Bay, ahead of a few hours around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland for possibly the first time that a NEWT mini-Safari has been a birthday present for a 6-year old.\u00a0 No ordinary 6-year old though…a 6-year old who wants to be a marine biologist and watches Blue Planet when he should be doing his homework \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
It was cold, with most footpaths and tracks still covered in either snow or ice, but that did allow us to study some Rabbit<\/strong><\/em> tracks and think about how they’re formed.\u00a0 A thin layer of ice on the river had left Goldeneye, Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> and Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> close to the margins or picking their way through the maze of small gaps of clear water and a rabbit was on the bank near the water’s edge.<\/p>\n As dusk took hold the Tufted Ducks<\/strong><\/em> and Coots<\/strong><\/em> were forming an increasingly dense flock…as the water around them froze, leaving an ever-decreasing circle at it’s centre.\u00a0 Skeins of Pink-footed<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Greylag<\/strong><\/em> and Canada Geese<\/strong><\/em> were all heard before they were seen, as the calls of Mallard, Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> and Teal<\/strong><\/em> resonated through the cold air and a Grey Heron<\/strong><\/em> stalked through the icy shallows.\u00a0 Time to head back to the warmth of the car, and the bright lights of Whitley Bay \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I collected Judy and Gary, Jess and Jarrod, and Ben from Whitley Bay, ahead of a few hours around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland for possibly the first time that a NEWT mini-Safari has been a birthday present for a 6-year old.\u00a0 No ordinary 6-year old though…a 6-year old who wants to be a marine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,139],"tags":[560,270,372,168,283,190,360,171,129,284,169,182,181],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-canada-goose","tag-coot","tag-cormorant","tag-goldeneye","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-rabbit","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","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=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}