{"id":4288,"date":"2018-04-20T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2018-04-20T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:14:58","slug":"signs-of-spring-remnants-of-winter-lindisfarne-safari-19-04-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/lindisfarne\/signs-of-spring-remnants-of-winter-lindisfarne-safari-19-04-18","title":{"rendered":"Signs of spring, remnants of winter; Lindisfarne Safari 19\/04\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collected Gordon and Mandy for their 6th day out with NEWT, and 2nd this week, from the Bamburgh Castle Inn<\/a> and we headed up the coast towards Holy Island<\/a> under clear blue sky and warm sunshine…<\/p>\n

Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> were displaying over the fields; twisting, tumbling and calling with their very unbird-like song.\u00a0 Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> were quietly grazing nearby and Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> and Moorhen<\/strong><\/em> were around the edges of the Lough.\u00a0 A small flock of Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> flew by as Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> were song-flighting from fences and Skylarks<\/strong><\/em> were everywhere, occasionally landing on the ground where we could see them but mostly high against the deep blue background.\u00a0 Around the edge of the harbour Bar-tailed Godwits, Ringed Plover, Redshank<\/strong><\/em> and a lone Grey Plover<\/strong><\/em> were exploring the mud as a Wheatear<\/strong><\/em> perched on an old drystone wall and a Fulmar<\/strong><\/em> arced effortlessly past the castle.<\/p>\n

On a fast rising tide, Shelduck<\/strong><\/em> and Curlew<\/strong><\/em> came closer to the land and a pair of Pintail<\/strong><\/em> drifted past with small groups of Wigeon<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Eider<\/strong><\/em> and Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em> were riding the gentle swell, Red-breasted Mergansers<\/strong><\/em> flew by, a White Wagtail<\/strong><\/em> was with a dozen or so Pied Wagtails<\/strong><\/em> and on the increasingly isolated tops of rocks a lone Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> was with a flock of Purple Sandpipers, <\/strong><\/em>no doubt all enjoying the Northumberland sunshine as they prepare to head back north to their breeding grounds \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I collected Gordon and Mandy for their 6th day out with NEWT, and 2nd this week, from the Bamburgh Castle Inn and we headed up the coast towards Holy Island under clear blue sky and warm sunshine… Lapwing were displaying over the fields; twisting, tumbling and calling with their very unbird-like song.\u00a0 Roe Deer were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[147,556,67,288,149,122,175,400,835,123,360,207,198,536,179,176,188,224,66,189,191,235,244,181],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lindisfarne","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-common-redshank","tag-common-scoter","tag-dunlin","tag-eider","tag-fulmar","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-plover","tag-grey-seal","tag-lapwing","tag-little-grebe","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-moorhen","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-pintail","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-ringed-plover","tag-roe-deer","tag-shelduck","tag-skylark","tag-wheatear","tag-white-wagtail","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}