{"id":4345,"date":"2018-06-26T08:26:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T07:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2018-06-26T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T07:26:50","slug":"now-you-see-me-druridge-bay-safari-22-06-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/now-you-see-me-druridge-bay-safari-22-06-18","title":{"rendered":"Now you see me…; Druridge Bay Safari 22\/06\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday was Anne and Howard’s 2nd day out with NEWT, after a Farne Islands trip in June last year<\/a>, and this time our destination was NEWT’s local patch – Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland<\/a>…<\/p>\n

In glorious sunshine we started with a woodland walk.\u00a0 Jays<\/strong><\/em> and Great Spotted Woodpeckers<\/strong><\/em> were characteristically quite vocal, and Coal Tits, Blue Tits<\/strong><\/em> and Nuthatches<\/strong><\/em> were feeding fledglings in the branches above our heads and a Banded Demoiselle<\/strong><\/em> put in a graceful appearance.\u00a0 We were searching for Dippers<\/strong><\/em> and Anne spotted one on a branch that apparently hadn’t had one on it just a few seconds earlier.\u00a0 We watched it for around 20 minutes as it slept, preened stretched and then vanished as it turned it’s back towards us.\u00a0 Among the sun-dappled branches just a few inches above the river it just blended into the background without it’s striking white breast on display.<\/p>\n

After a picnic overlooking the North Sea, with Fulmars<\/strong><\/em> arcing by along the clifftop, we continued north along the bay.\u00a0 Avocet chicks were running around the shallows as 13 adults were either incubating, feeding or engaging in some entertaining disputes with Shelducks<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 In the warm afternoon sunshine damselflies<\/strong><\/em> were abundant and Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> were feeding with a single chick.\u00a0 At our final site for the day 33 Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong><\/em> were feeding close to Tufted Ducks, Mallard<\/strong><\/em> and Teal<\/strong><\/em> and as Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> flew out towards the sea I caught a glimpse of a dark back as it submerged out of sight.\u00a0 Probably a Cormorant<\/strong><\/em>, but always worth making sure…and there was an Otter<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 A great way to end the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday was Anne and Howard’s 2nd day out with NEWT, after a Farne Islands trip in June last year, and this time our destination was NEWT’s local patch – Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland… In glorious sunshine we started with a woodland walk.\u00a0 Jays and Great Spotted Woodpeckers were characteristically quite vocal, and Coal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40,305,242,46,101,372,621,257,122,488,25,24,171,300,837,189,169,182],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-avocet","tag-banded-demoiselle","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-blue-tit","tag-coal-tit","tag-cormorant","tag-damselfly","tag-dipper","tag-fulmar","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-jay","tag-mallard","tag-nuthatch","tag-otter","tag-shelduck","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}