As I collected Amy and James from Warkworth, ahead of a day around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland, the forecast for the morning was good, but there was a chance it would start to deteriorate during the afternoon…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With only a gentle breeze every area of water we looked at was close to mirror-calm. Mallard, Gadwall, Goldeneye, Wigeon, Teal, Mute Swan, Canada Geese<\/em><\/strong> and Greylag Geese<\/em><\/strong> were all staying low on the water as Grey Herons<\/em><\/strong> sat in their usual pose of misery and Water Rails<\/em><\/strong> began squealing from the reeds. Little Grebes<\/em><\/strong> were diving, Cormorants<\/em><\/strong> were drying their wings with heraldic majesty and Lapwings<\/em><\/strong> flushed in panic, caught on the now stiffening breeze like windblown leaves. Curlews<\/em><\/strong> flew off, their eerie cries carrying over the calm water and a presumably confused Fulmar<\/em><\/strong> was soaring around over a coastal pool before heading back out to sea. More Fulmars<\/em><\/strong> accompanied our lunch stop, arcing along the clifftop with an uncharacteristically calm North Sea behind them. With the breeze picking up there was an obvious lack of passerines. Jackdaws<\/em><\/strong> and Wood Pigeons<\/em><\/strong> were sitting in bare trees, Little Grebes<\/em><\/strong> were patrolling close to overhanging vegetation where Moorhens<\/em><\/strong> were dabbling and as the Sun was setting in the west, remarkably orange, 3 Roe Deer<\/em><\/strong> were chasing around a steep field overlooking the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another great winter’s day with lovely clients \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I collected Amy and James from Warkworth, ahead of a day around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland, the forecast for the morning was good, but there was a chance it would start to deteriorate during the afternoon… With only a gentle breeze every area of water we looked at was close to mirror-calm. Mallard, […]<\/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":[560,172,170,168,283,190,171,198,178,210,66,169,237],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-canada-goose","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-mallard","tag-moorhen","tag-mute-swan","tag-oystercatcher","tag-roe-deer","tag-teal","tag-water-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","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=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4931,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}