Arriving in Newbiggin to collect Jonathan and Emily & Scot and Sam, there was chilly breeze but a definite feel of changing season in the air…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cormorants<\/em><\/strong> were roosting on fallen trees in the river and with a big tide they soon found their tail feathers and feet getting wet \ud83d\ude42 Oystercatchers, Redshank, Lapwing<\/em><\/strong> and Curlew<\/em><\/strong> were all on the muddy edges and Mallard, Gadwall, Shelduck, Little Grebe<\/em><\/strong> and Moorhen<\/em><\/strong> were in the water. A Little Egret<\/em><\/strong> darting in the shallows took off and headed downstream, standing out against the backdrop of dark vegetation on the river bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Heading towards dusk a Starling<\/em><\/strong> murmuration began developing, Greylag Geese<\/em><\/strong> were grazing in a nearby field , Whooper Swans<\/em><\/strong> flew north and a Roe Deer<\/em><\/strong> spent several minutes hurtling headlong back and forth near the water’s edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With daylight fading fast, the loud trumpeting of Whooper Swans<\/em><\/strong> arriving to roost drifted across the water and as we headed back to the car Pink-footed Geese<\/em><\/strong>, unseen but well heard, joined them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clients who understand the environment and have a passion for it always make the time pass far too quickly, and it was dark as we headed back towards the bright lights of Newbiggin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arriving in Newbiggin to collect Jonathan and Emily & Scot and Sam, there was chilly breeze but a definite feel of changing season in the air… Cormorants were roosting on fallen trees in the river and with a big tide they soon found their tail feathers and feet getting wet \ud83d\ude42 Oystercatchers, Redshank, Lapwing and […]<\/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":[372,172,170,190,123,243,360,171,198,564,210,129,358,971,189,161,130],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-moorhen","tag-murmuration","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-redshank","tag-roe-dee","tag-shelduck","tag-starling","tag-whooper-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}