On Saturday we led a wildlife walk on Holy Island.\u00a0 Grim, murky drizzle on the way north looked less than promising but, as we approached Beal, the weather improved and stayed fine throughout the walk.\u00a0 Possibly the highlight of the day was all of the birds on the Rocket field flushing as two Peregrines flew menacingly above the pools.\u00a0 The journey home produced our rarest sighting of the day, at least in a Northumberland context, when we watched 3 Bewick’s Swans in a field south of Alnmouth.<\/p>\n
Sunday really was a case of something completely different, as I headed out to the Farne Deeps for the latest Northeast Cetacean Project survey.\u00a0 The project, which is been run by Northern Experience and Marinelife with\u00a0our funding partners; Natural England and the Northumberland and Tyneside Bird Club, has several strands, with the surveys backed up by postcards that we’re distributing to local charter boats and marinas so they can submit their sightings, an analysis of all the records and reports we can find for the last 7 years and, coming soon, a website that will allow online submission of whale and dolphin sightings off Northumberland.\u00a0 Meanwhile, back on the boat…my survey team on Sunday was made up of Alan Tilmouth and Ross Ahmed who were part of the team on our surveys back in December, Tim Sexton<\/a> who was on our blizzard-hit survey two weeks ago and Dan ‘Punkbirder<\/a>‘ Brown.\u00a0 Highlights were a Common Dolphin and a small group of Little Auks.<\/p>\n Yesterday saw the Landy having it’s\u00a06-monthly safety test.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, with the work put in by Sandy<\/a>\u00a0to keep the mechanical bits working smoothly, and the electrical work that Darren <\/a>has done to ensure that when you flick a switch what happens is what should happen, it passed again.\u00a0 Peace of mind for our clients, and the NEWT Landy will keep rolling around Northumberland, delivering them\u00a0 to top-quality birdwatching and wildlife experiences.<\/p>\n Now it’s Tuesday and I’ve got 50 miles of offshore survey ahead of me.\u00a0 Bring it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday we led a wildlife walk on Holy Island.\u00a0 Grim, murky drizzle on the way north looked less than promising but, as we approached Beal, the weather improved and stayed fine throughout the walk.\u00a0 Possibly the highlight of the day was all of the birds on the Rocket field flushing as two Peregrines flew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,5,104],"tags":[194,195,196,94,55],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-lindisfarne","category-northumberland","category-surveys","tag-bewicks-swan","tag-common-dolphin","tag-little-auk","tag-marinelife","tag-peregrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}