{"id":4755,"date":"2019-03-29T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:15:01","slug":"everything-adding-up-to-a-great-day-cheviot-valleys-bespoke-birdwatching-28-03-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/cheviot-valleys\/everything-adding-up-to-a-great-day-cheviot-valleys-bespoke-birdwatching-28-03-19","title":{"rendered":"Everything ‘adding’ up to a great day; Cheviot Valleys Bespoke Birdwatching 28\/03\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday was Sue’s 9th day out with NEWT, and the first time we’d headed into the Cheviot Valleys<\/a> together…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In warm sunshine and under blue skies we started with a search for Adders<\/em><\/strong>. Sue’s sharp eyes spotted two, and we watched both from a respectful distance so they continued basking in roadside vegetation. Great Crested<\/em><\/strong> and Little Grebes<\/em><\/strong> were perhaps expected, but a Little Egret<\/em><\/strong> was a first for our Cheviot Valleys safaris before we headed deeper into the hills and a Brown Hare<\/em><\/strong> loped up the road ahead of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dipper<\/em><\/strong> was next on the target list and Sue spotted one as it sat motionless on a mid-stream rock. Grey Wagtails<\/em><\/strong> were resplendent in breeding plumage and Goosanders<\/em><\/strong> gave brief flight views as they headed up a narrow valley. Chiffchaff<\/em><\/strong> and Chaffinch<\/em><\/strong> were singing, Common Crossbills<\/em><\/strong> called overhead, Green Woodpeckers<\/em><\/strong> yaffled from the woods and the eerie calls of Curlew<\/em><\/strong> rolled down the wind-blasted fells. Meadow Pipits<\/em><\/strong> and Skylarks<\/em><\/strong> were in song flight as a Ring Ouzel<\/em><\/strong> foraged in rough rocky pasture and as Red Grouse<\/em><\/strong> engaged in territorial disputes on the hillsides a remarkable few minutes brought Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Peregrine<\/em><\/strong> and then a pair of Ravens<\/em><\/strong> in glorious synchronous display flight. When the Ravens<\/em><\/strong> reappeared from behind the high peak they were in pursuit of an interloper before dropping out of sight again. Common Buzzards<\/em><\/strong> were surprisingly scarce on higher ground, although there was little flying in a stiff breeze that it wasn’t easy to stand up in, but suddenly conspicuous in the afternoon sunshine as we headed back down through lower sheltered valleys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great weather, great company and great wildlife. See you again soon Sue \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Sue’s 9th day out with NEWT, and the first time we’d headed into the Cheviot Valleys together… In warm sunshine and under blue skies we started with a search for Adders. Sue’s sharp eyes spotted two, and we watched both from a respectful distance so they continued basking in roadside vegetation. Great Crested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[371,57,102,268,148,165,172,257,378,488,209,256,128,243,360,207,56,55,536,457,208,263,191],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheviot-valleys","tag-adder","tag-brown-hare","tag-chaffinch","tag-chiffchaff","tag-common-buzzard","tag-common-crossbill","tag-curlew","tag-dipper","tag-goosander","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-kestrel","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-merlin","tag-peregrine","tag-pied-wagtail","tag-raven","tag-red-grouse","tag-ring-ouzel","tag-skylark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","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=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}