{"id":595,"date":"2010-06-19T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2011-07-10T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T09:55:35","slug":"thursday-part-2-birdwatching-and-badgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/thursday-part-2-birdwatching-and-badgers","title":{"rendered":"Thursday (part 2); birdwatching and badgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After collecting Gill and Richard from Bamburgh, mid-afternoon Thursday, we had another southeast Northumberland safari.\u00a0 This one was scheduled to finish at dusk, &#8220;a 50-year quest to see a live Badger&#8221;.\u00a0 No pressure there then \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 As so often, with late finishes, the final hour was simply magical.\u00a0 We&#8217;d made our way to the hillside opposite a <strong><em>Badger<\/em><\/strong> sett that we&#8217;ve been watching for a few weeks.\u00a0 Within a minute of settling into our watching position the tables were turned and we found ourselves under the baleful glare of a <strong><em>Tawny Owl<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Still in good daylight, our first <strong><em>Badger<\/em><\/strong> of the evening walked across the hillside opposite.\u00a0 Over the next 40 mins we had 7 sightings of at least 5 <strong><em>Badgers<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong><em>Pipistrelles<\/em><\/strong> flicked back and forward across our field of view, <strong><em>Blackbirds, Robins, Wrens <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Mistle Thrushes<\/em><\/strong> were all alarming from the trees around our watchpoint and we enjoyed all of this with the <strong><em>Badgers<\/em><\/strong> carrying on with their dusk perambulations around the woods, safe and undisturbed by anything we were doing.<\/p>\n<p>After returning Gill and Richard to Bamburgh, through what seemed to be a blizzard of moths, it was time to head home.\u00a0 3 <strong><em>Barn Owls<\/em><\/strong> between Bamburgh and Seahouses were an excellent start to the journey and, near Rennington, I had to stop and wait as a <strong><em>Red Fox<\/em><\/strong> cub walked across the road in front of the Land Rover.\u00a0 Back home it was time to sleep, ahead of\u00a0Friday&#8217;s Otter Safari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After collecting Gill and Richard from Bamburgh, mid-afternoon Thursday, we had another southeast Northumberland safari.\u00a0 This one was scheduled to finish at dusk, &#8220;a 50-year quest to see a live Badger&#8221;.\u00a0 No pressure there then \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 As so often, with late finishes, the final hour was simply magical.\u00a0 We&#8217;d made our way to the hillside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,3,5,139],"tags":[286,97,823,825,292,847,78],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-birdwatching","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-badger","tag-barn-owl","tag-birdwatching","tag-northumberland","tag-pipistrelle","tag-red-fox","tag-tawny-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","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=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}