{"id":4860,"date":"2019-08-02T11:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T10:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T10:15:00","slug":"druridge-bay-safari-25-07-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/druridge-bay-safari-25-07-19","title":{"rendered":"Druridge Bay Safari 25\/07\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a warm muggy afternoon I collected Julie &amp; Paul and Geoff and Minouche ahead of an afternoon and evening around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland (opens in a new tab)\">Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late July is often a time to watch waders, and after a riverside walk that produced good views of a <strong><em>Dipper<\/em><\/strong> we started working our way through the coastal pools.  A <strong><em>Barn Owl<\/em><\/strong> was ghosting its way along a hedgerow as <strong><em>Little Egrets<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Grey Herons<\/em><\/strong> stalked through the shallows, a <strong><em>Water Rail<\/em><\/strong> scurried between clumps of rush and an impressive array of waders was well appreciated; <strong><em>Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Knot, Lapwing, Oystercatcher<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Redshank<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Ringed Plover<\/em><\/strong> were all roosting or feeding, a <strong><em>Spotted Redshank<\/em><\/strong> flew over, the trilling whistles of <strong><em>Whimbrel<\/em><\/strong> cut through the evening air and panic spread the the wader flocks as a male <strong><em>Marsh Harrier<\/em><\/strong> quartered the reedbeds and the precursors to the big <strong><em>Starling<\/em><\/strong> murmurations of the winter speckled the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm muggy afternoon I collected Julie &amp; Paul and Geoff and Minouche ahead of an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland&#8230; Late July is often a time to watch waders, and after a riverside walk that produced good views of a Dipper we started working our way through the coastal [&hellip;]<\/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":[40,97,242,57,257,288,333,283,334,123,243,66,357,237],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-avocet","tag-barn-owl","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-brown-hare","tag-dipper","tag-dunlin","tag-green-sandpiper","tag-grey-heron","tag-knot","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-roe-deer","tag-spotted-redshank","tag-water-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","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=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4861,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions\/4861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}