{"id":4317,"date":"2018-05-19T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2018-05-19T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:14:23","slug":"hazy-lazy-afternoon-north-pennines-safari-17-05-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/pennines\/hazy-lazy-afternoon-north-pennines-safari-17-05-18","title":{"rendered":"Hazy, lazy afternoon; North Pennines Safari 17\/05\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected James and Emma from Hexham and we headed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">into the North Pennines<\/a> for a day searching for the flora and fauna of the hills and moorland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We were soon watching our first <em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> of the day, which remarkably also proved to be our only <em><strong>Black Grouse<\/strong><\/em> of the day, as <em><strong>Common Snipe<\/strong><\/em> flew by and <em><strong>Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> displayed over the road ahead of us.\u00a0 Crossing heather moorland we started to find <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em>, then more <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em> and more <em><strong>Red Grouse<\/strong><\/em>; engaging in territorial disputes with each other, chuckling from the fellsides or just quizzically raising a big red eyebrow in our direction they provide entertainment whenever we come across them.\u00a0 <em><strong>Brown Hares<\/strong><\/em> loped along the road ahead of our car and almost every fence post seemed to be adorned with a <em><strong>Meadow Pipit<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Our post-lunch walk produced the best display of <em><strong>Spring Gentian<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Birds-eye Primrose<\/strong><\/em> that I&#8217;ve seen in ten years of leading tours in the North Pennines and we could hear, but not see, <em><strong>Peregrines<\/strong><\/em> as <em><strong>Grey Wagtails<\/strong><\/em> were flycatching along shallow streams.\u00a0 eventually we did see a <em><strong>Peregrine<\/strong><\/em>, spotted by James as it soared distantly before drifting right over the car, and the plaintive call of a <em><strong>Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> heralded a flyby from the beautiful black-bellied gold-spangled &#8216;Pennine Whistler&#8217; before we headed back across the moors to the bustling metropolis of Newcastle \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected James and Emma from Hexham and we headed into the North Pennines for a day searching for the flora and fauna of the hills and moorland&#8230; We were soon watching our first Black Grouse of the day, which remarkably also proved to be our only Black Grouse of the day, as Common Snipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[935,54,57,373,172,175,256,190,123,207,55,504,208,295],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennines","tag-birds-eye-primrose","tag-black-grouse","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-golden-plover","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-peregrine","tag-pheasant","tag-red-grouse","tag-spring-gentian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","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=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}