{"id":67,"date":"2008-12-31T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-11-02T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:29:58","slug":"the-icy-grip-of-the-old-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/the-icy-grip-of-the-old-year","title":{"rendered":"The icy grip of the old year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just back in from a very, very cold trip up to Alnwick. Along the side of the A1, Buzzards perched immobile &#8211; perhaps frozen to their perches by the -3C temperature of midday. Bizarrely, the overcast gloom and sub-zero temperatures were accompanied by no frost whatsoever. A wander round Hulne Park was intended to clear the system. Red Squirrels could be seen raiding the feeders at the entrance, and a host of woodland birds clammered around. Buzzards could be heard with their eerie mewing but the gloomy conditions precluded a view. As we strolled through the park and the woodland gave way to pasture flocks of birds were the definite theme: wood pigeons, starlings, jackdaws and partridges were all gathered with their friends and relatives; just the thing for New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>As the icy air chilled our bones we headed off for a hearty lunch in a warming inn, passing flocks of starlings and redwings on our way. Warmed, watered and fed we made our way back home, pondering on what 2009 might bring.<\/p>\n<p>We wish all of you very warm wishes for the New Year and enjoy your celebrations, whatever they may be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just back in from a very, very cold trip up to Alnwick. Along the side of the A1, Buzzards perched immobile &#8211; perhaps frozen to their perches by the -3C temperature of midday. Bizarrely, the overcast gloom and sub-zero temperatures were accompanied by no frost whatsoever. A wander round Hulne Park was intended to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,107,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-family-and-friends","category-northumberland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}