{"id":4300,"date":"2018-05-01T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2018-05-01T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:16:45","slug":"and-more-persistence-bespoke-cheviot-valleys-birdwatching-29-04-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/uncategorized\/and-more-persistence-bespoke-cheviot-valleys-birdwatching-29-04-18","title":{"rendered":"…and more persistence :-) Bespoke Cheviot Valleys birdwatching 29\/04\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving towards Bywell to collect Peter and Pat for a day in the Cheviot Valleys<\/a> I was considering the weather forecast that had suggested it would be dry, bright and breezy.\u00a0 I was mainly considering it because it was raining…<\/p>\n

Dippers<\/strong><\/em> were carrying food to their nests, and carrying faecal sacs away to throw in the river.\u00a0 A Common Sandpiper<\/strong><\/em> went swee-wee-wee-wee-wee along the shallow bubbling stream and Grey Wagtails<\/strong><\/em> were proving elusive.\u00a0 Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Chaffinch<\/strong><\/em> and Blackbird<\/strong><\/em> were singing and a yaffling Green Woodpecker<\/strong><\/em> eventually flew by and perched where we could see it for a minute or so.\u00a0 Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> were chuckling on the heather-clad slopes above us and a male Merlin<\/strong><\/em> dashed by and over a ridge.\u00a0 With hail showers, and snow on much higher ground, Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> were coming down by the dozen, off the moor to the valley bottom as Curlews<\/strong><\/em> were song-flighting .\u00a0 After lunch we headed up a narrow steep valley in search of Ring Ouzel<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 For around 30mins we could hear one singing, but we couldn’t see him.\u00a0 A Cuckoo<\/strong><\/em> called from the opposite side of the valley and then flew by before perching on a dry stone wall, and the ouzel<\/strong><\/em> continued to sing from a hidden perch.\u00a0 Then, in a moment that couldn’t have been scripted better the Sun broke through the cloud and illuminated a small crag on the skyline – just as a male Ring Ouzel<\/strong><\/em> settled on it after chasing another ouzel across the heather \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Another great day out with clients who are serious birdwatchers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driving towards Bywell to collect Peter and Pat for a day in the Cheviot Valleys I was considering the weather forecast that had suggested it would be dry, bright and breezy.\u00a0 I was mainly considering it because it was raining… Dippers were carrying food to their nests, and carrying faecal sacs away to throw in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[133,461,102,268,214,264,172,257,209,256,207,56,208,263,213],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheviot-valleys","category-uncategorized","tag-blackbird","tag-blackcap","tag-chaffinch","tag-chiffchaff","tag-common-sandpiper","tag-cuckoo","tag-curlew","tag-dipper","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-merlin","tag-red-grouse","tag-ring-ouzel","tag-willow-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","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=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}