{"id":4393,"date":"2018-07-13T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2018-07-13T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T10:10:24","slug":"owling-druridge-bay-safari-10-07-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/owling-druridge-bay-safari-10-07-18","title":{"rendered":"Owling; Druridge Bay Safari 10\/07\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday was Roger’s 3rd day out with NEWT and this time Mandy was joining him for an afternoon and evening exploring NEWT’s local patch – Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland<\/a>…<\/p>\n

After a run of very hot days the weather had relented, although only slightly, and we started the trip with a woodland walk beside the river Blyth.\u00a0 Family parties of Nuthatch<\/strong><\/em> and Treecreeper<\/strong><\/em> were chattering away among themselves as they explored tree trunks, branches and the sun-dappled canopy and our target bird for the walk appeared, as a juvenile Dipper<\/strong><\/em> tentatively poked it’s face in the river while keeping it’s feet on drier ground.\u00a0 Fulmars<\/strong><\/em> were arcing along the clifftop at our picnic spot overlooking the North Sea and a small flock of Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em> passed by.\u00a0 Avocet, Dunlin, Lapwing, Curlew<\/strong><\/em>, Common Snipe<\/strong><\/em> and a Whimbrel<\/strong><\/em> were all on mud freshly exposed by the heat of the Sun and Starlings<\/strong><\/em> were starting to murmurate.\u00a0 As we moved through the evening, the beautiful low angled sunlight was simply sublime, and illuminated Brown Hares<\/strong><\/em>, juvenile Water Rails<\/strong><\/em> and three stunning Black-tailed Godwits<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 A Little Owl<\/strong><\/em> perched on a stone wall by the roadside gave us the withering ‘angry little man’ glare that they’re so good at and three separate Barn Owls<\/strong><\/em> graced us with their presence; one carrying a mouse back to the nest, one quartering a long hedgerow, and the final one, as we drove back towards Warkworth, nearly hit the car before taking evasive action and flying up over the roof \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday was Roger’s 3rd day out with NEWT and this time Mandy was joining him for an afternoon and evening exploring NEWT’s local patch – Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland… After a run of very hot days the weather had relented, although only slightly, and we started the trip with a woodland walk beside the […]<\/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":[97,242,57,67,373,172,257,288,122,123,72,300,161,338,237,231],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-barn-owl","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-scoter","tag-common-snipe","tag-curlew","tag-dipper","tag-dunlin","tag-fulmar","tag-lapwing","tag-little-owl","tag-nuthatch","tag-starling","tag-treecreeper","tag-water-rail","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","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=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}