{"id":593,"date":"2010-06-19T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2010-06-19T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:17:57","slug":"thursday-part-1-summer-morning-birdwatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/thursday-part-1-summer-morning-birdwatching","title":{"rendered":"Thursday (part 1); summer morning birdwatching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early start on Thursday saw us close to home, birdwatching in southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 6am at Church Point as I collected Mick and Helen\u00a0was sublime; warm, still and very quiet.\u00a0 Starting with a woodland walk we had excellent views of <strong><em>Red Squirrel<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 In the bright sunshine our regular <strong><em>Little Owl<\/em><\/strong> was sitting at the entrance to it&#8217;s nest.\u00a0 These conditions at this time of the year mean that insects feature prominently in our safaris; <strong><em>Blue-tailed Damselflies<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 and <strong><em>Silver Ground Carpet moths<\/em><\/strong> seemed to be everywhere that we walked.\u00a0 <strong><em>Sedge Warblers<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 and<strong><em>\u00a0 Reed Buntings<\/em><\/strong> were singing from the reedbeds and\u00a0<strong><em>Grey Herons<\/em><\/strong> stalked patiently along the edges of coastal ponds.\u00a0 The quality of conversation\u00a0made the morning seem to fly past;\u00a0environment, conservation, sustainability\u00a0and renewable energy are all important things to NEWT and it&#8217;s always a pleasure to share our love of the northeast and it&#8217;s wildlife with clients who know the area and the countryside so well.\u00a0 Mick&#8217;s keenness on video recording and photography of the wildlife he sees was enjoyable, and Helen managed to photograph a <strong><em>Sedge Warbler<\/em><\/strong> using her mobile &#8216;phone.\u00a0 All too soon, Thursday (part 1) was over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early start on Thursday saw us close to home, birdwatching in southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 6am at Church Point as I collected Mick and Helen\u00a0was sublime; warm, still and very quiet.\u00a0 Starting with a woodland walk we had excellent views of Red Squirrel and Great Spotted Woodpecker.\u00a0 In the bright sunshine our regular Little Owl was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,139],"tags":[290,25,283,24,72,833,127,227,303],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-blue-tailed-damselfly","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-grey-heron","tag-jay","tag-little-owl","tag-red-squirrel","tag-reed-bunting","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-silver-ground-carpet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}