It’s that time of year again.\u00a0\u00a0Bright sunshine, insects are on the wing and in Southeast Northumberland, birdwatching is taken at a steady pace.<\/p>\n
On yesterday’s Druridge Bay trip\u00a0 Common Blue<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 and Blue-tailed Damselflies<\/em><\/strong> were flitting about in front of us and every so often would stop and rest, giving everyone an opportunity to see just how stunning they are.\u00a0 Butterflies were around in good numbers as well and we had close views of one of my personal favourites, Small Copper<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Other wildlife was taking advantage of the sun as well; a Brown Hare<\/em><\/strong> crouched by a fence with flies buzzing around it’s nose and a very obliging Little Owl<\/em><\/strong> was sitting in the entrance to it’s nest.\u00a0 A quick stare to check us out and then it dozed off again. Grey Herons<\/em><\/strong> flapped by, Lapwings<\/em><\/strong> were calling and trying to distract attention away from their chicks, Dunlin<\/em><\/strong>, resplendent in breeding plumage, probed the mud around the edge of Cresswell Pond and, in what seemed like next to no time, the day was done and we were heading back to Newbiggin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s that time of year again.\u00a0\u00a0Bright sunshine, insects are on the wing and in Southeast Northumberland, birdwatching is taken at a steady pace. On yesterday’s Druridge Bay trip\u00a0 Common Blue\u00a0 and Blue-tailed Damselflies were flitting about in front of us and every so often would stop and rest, giving everyone an opportunity to see just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,139],"tags":[823,290,57,289,288,283,123,72,825,220,291],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-birdwatching","tag-blue-tailed-damselfly","tag-brown-hare","tag-common-blue-damselfly","tag-dunlin","tag-grey-heron","tag-lapwing","tag-little-owl","tag-northumberland","tag-northumberland-birdwatching","tag-small-copper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}