Thursday evening was the AGM of the Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club, and the speaker following the AGM proceedings was our good friend Martin Davison.\u00a0 Ornithologist is an often overused (and misused) word, but Martin is a real ornithologist, gathering data through hours and hours\u00a0in the field and involved in several research projects.\u00a0 His talk was entertaining, informative and covered much of the work he has been involved in for 30 years in Kielder and the Border Forests.\u00a0 There were some stunning images in his presentation, and the sort of facts and observations that can only be determined by carrying out a prodigious amount of fieldwork.<\/p>\n
Kielder itself is an unusual, even other-worldly,\u00a0place; mile after mile of rolling hills, steep crags and\u00a0boggy pools, and lots, and lots, of trees.\u00a0 Our Kielder Safaris have produced some memorable moments; a pair of Mandarins<\/em><\/strong> mating, a Common Buzzard<\/em><\/strong> catching and devouring a vole, Roe Deer<\/em><\/strong> wandering across the remote forest tracks just ahead of our Land Rover and the ‘phantoms of the forest’, Northern Goshawk<\/em><\/strong>, beating\u00a0their way along the edge of spruce plantations.\u00a0 We’ll be back in Kielder from April, and our dates for 2011 will be on our calendar <\/a>in the next couple of weeks, so give us a call on 01670 827465 to join one of our trips to this little visited area of Northumberland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday evening was the AGM of the Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club, and the speaker following the AGM proceedings was our good friend Martin Davison.\u00a0 Ornithologist is an often overused (and misused) word, but Martin is a real ornithologist, gathering data through hours and hours\u00a0in the field and involved in several research projects.\u00a0 His talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,5],"tags":[823,148,203,399,825,66],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-kielder","category-northumberland","tag-birdwatching","tag-common-buzzard","tag-mandarin","tag-northern-goshawk","tag-northumberland","tag-roe-deer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}