{"id":4683,"date":"2018-11-03T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2018-11-03T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T09:39:50","slug":"fantastic-mr-fox-another-walk-in-the-woods-02-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/choppington-woods-northumberland\/fantastic-mr-fox-another-walk-in-the-woods-02-11-18","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Mr Fox; Another walk in the woods 02\/11\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under a leaden overcast sky the cold air wraps its damp tendrils around every exposed bit of my skin.\u00a0 <em><strong>Jays<\/strong><\/em> are making their way across open ground between the plantations with a stuttering flight, white rumps flashing in the gloom, and a <em><strong>Woodcock<\/strong><\/em> heads out as the unseen sun dips below the horizon.\u00a0 A last good feed of the day for <em><strong>Coal, Blue, Great<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Willow Tits<\/strong><\/em> is on offer at a makeshift feeding station as I start scanning the hedgerow along the southern edge of a field of verdant green with new growth.\u00a0 In the distance a lump breaking the gentle undulations of the field isn&#8217;t straightforward to identify in the half-light.\u00a0 Moving along the hedgerow a few metres at time I get close enough to identify it as a <em><strong>Red Fox<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Closer still and I get a great view as he stands up and has a good stretch.\u00a0 Now awake, he trots along for a few seconds and then sits, gazing intently around him.\u00a0 I move through the hedge and watch him from a well concealed position and then parallel his movements, stopping regularly to watch what he&#8217;s doing.\u00a0 By the time he eventually disappears through a hedge and into a small plantation 45mins have passed and I make my way home along dark paths wrapped in the scent and sound of the woods at dusk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a leaden overcast sky the cold air wraps its damp tendrils around every exposed bit of my skin.\u00a0 Jays are making their way across open ground between the plantations with a stuttering flight, white rumps flashing in the gloom, and a Woodcock heads out as the unseen sun dips below the horizon.\u00a0 A last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[46,101,45,24,847,967,28,71],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choppington-woods-northumberland","tag-blue-tit","tag-coal-tit","tag-great-tit","tag-jay","tag-red-fox","tag-wellness","tag-willow-tit","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","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=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}