{"id":4284,"date":"2018-04-18T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T11:12:19","slug":"a-wet-day-in-the-borders-kielder-safari-17-04-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/kielder\/a-wet-day-in-the-borders-kielder-safari-17-04-18","title":{"rendered":"A wet day in the borders; Kielder Safari 17\/04\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collected Gordon and Mandy from The Battlesteads<\/a> for their 5th day out with NEWT and we headed towards Kielder<\/a>.\u00a0 The forecast suggested occasional showers, so I was hopeful that the breaks in the rain would encourage raptors to be up and about…<\/p>\n

6 hours later the rain eventually stopped \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We’d had views of Dipper<\/strong><\/em> and Grey Wagtail<\/strong><\/em> along a shallow fast-flowing rocky stream as Sand Martins<\/strong><\/em> vanished into nest holes in the steep riverbank.\u00a0 A Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/em> seemed unperturbed by the rain and patience and persistence finally paid off when Gordon spotted a male Hen Harrier<\/strong><\/em> quartering a skyline ridge as Wild Goats<\/strong><\/em> grazed below.\u00a0 We moved along the road and another male Hen Harrier<\/strong><\/em> flew across the road ahead of us and was joined by a ringtail.\u00a0 As they worked they way along the ridge, more buzzards<\/strong><\/em> could be seen distantly and blue sky, fluffy white clouds and warm sunshine replaced the rain as Chaffinches<\/strong><\/em> and Robins<\/strong><\/em> sang from the trees close to the border, Siskins<\/strong><\/em> gave their high pitched calls as they flew over and Common Crossbills<\/strong><\/em> flew through without being obliging enough to settle where we could see them and more buzzards<\/strong><\/em> rose on thermals in the afternoon sunshine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I collected Gordon and Mandy from The Battlesteads for their 5th day out with NEWT and we headed towards Kielder.\u00a0 The forecast suggested occasional showers, so I was hopeful that the breaks in the rain would encourage raptors to be up and about… 6 hours later the rain eventually stopped \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We’d had views of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,148,165,172,257,256,839,116,218,89,495],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kielder","tag-chaffinch","tag-common-buzzard","tag-common-crossbill","tag-curlew","tag-dipper","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-hen-harrier","tag-robin","tag-sand-martin","tag-siskin","tag-wild-goat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","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=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}