{"id":48,"date":"2008-11-27T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T07:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-11-27T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T07:43:20","slug":"creatures-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/uncategorized\/creatures-of-the-night","title":{"rendered":"Creatures of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of days confined to the office, I couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to go for a walk in the woods as daylight faded to black.  The Goldcrest invasion shows no sign of abating, with birds in nearly every tree and shrub that I passed.  A real bonus was 5 Waxwings, flying in to roost on the old pit heap.  If you haven&#8217;t caught up with any of these stunning birds yet then keep looking; there&#8217;s been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/3396938\/Waxwing-leads-Russian-invasion.html\">substantial influx<\/a> in the last month.  Wandering through the wood I found myself face-to-face with a Roe Deer, which looked curiously at me for a few seconds before bounding off through the trees.  Bank Voles were scrabbling around in the fallen leaves at my feet and, right on cue, a Tawny Owl started it&#8217;s quavering song.  Other owls responded from the trees around me and a Red Squirrel on it&#8217;s way to bed clucked angrily as it passed through the branches above my head.  Canada Geese and Mallards were calling in flight as they passed over the wood and I was startled as a Woodcock burst from the ground just a few feet in front of me.  Heading back along the footpath, my dark-adjusted eyes were just about enough to keep me out of the deep puddles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of days confined to the office, I couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to go for a walk in the woods as daylight faded to black. The Goldcrest invasion shows no sign of abating, with birds in nearly every tree and shrub that I passed. A real bonus was 5 Waxwings, flying in to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}