{"id":798,"date":"2010-11-12T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2011-05-18T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T05:51:31","slug":"stormy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/stormy-weather","title":{"rendered":"Stormy weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

November is\u00a0generally a quiet month for NEWT; the half-term rush in late October has come and gone, thoughts are turning to Christmas…and the weather can be a bit suspect.\u00a0 We had a Safari Day around Druridge Bay<\/strong> and Southeast Northumberland<\/strong> at the end of last week that could have succumbed to the elements but, as it turned out, a combination of excellent birdwatching sites that could be watched from the Land Rover, clients with a real interest in natural history (and expertise in wildlife sound recording)and a badger-watching spot where the trees sheltered us from the rain, made it an enjoyable afternoon.\u00a0 The flock of Waxwings<\/em><\/strong> in Ashington delighted yet again.\u00a0 Who could fail to be impressed by them? After a spell of birdwatching that was then characterised by\u00a0‘lovely weather for ducks’ (Teal<\/em><\/strong>, Wigeon<\/em><\/strong>, Mallard<\/em><\/strong>, Gadwall<\/em><\/strong>, Goosander<\/em><\/strong>, Goldeneye<\/em><\/strong> and Pochard<\/em><\/strong> were all seen), and some good flocks of Lapwing<\/em><\/strong>, Golden Plover<\/em><\/strong>, Redshank<\/em><\/strong> and Pink-footed Goose<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0we headed inland to the steep, wooded hillside that has produced some excellent views of\u00a0Badgers<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on our Safaris in recent months.\u00a0 Only one Badger<\/em><\/strong> came wandering along – perhaps the others that we’ve watched so often this year were indulging in that particularly human pastime of curling up somewhere nice and warm out of the wind and the rain.<\/p>\n

Since then it’s been a busy week, mainly with planning and preparation for 2011 but also giving 2 presentations about the Northeast Cetacean Project.\u00a0 The first was to a group of postgrad students and lecturers at Newcastle University and then last night, to the Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club.\u00a0 Both presentations produced some interesting questions, and some potentially excellent volunteers to assist with our ongoing survey work.<\/p>\n

Now it’s Friday morning, the howling westerly winds are bringing waves of rain and then sunshine, there’s an intense rainbow visible from our office window and a flock\u00a0of Redwings<\/em><\/strong> are being blown about like autumn leaves.\u00a0 No matter what the weather throws at us, Northumberland is still a superb county for wildlife and birdwatching; you just need to know how to enjoy it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November is\u00a0generally a quiet month for NEWT; the half-term rush in late October has come and gone, thoughts are turning to Christmas…and the weather can be a bit suspect.\u00a0 We had a Safari Day around Druridge Bay and Southeast Northumberland at the end of last week that could have succumbed to the elements but, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,139],"tags":[286,823,170,175,168,378,123,171,361,129,420,358,22,169,180,181],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-badger","tag-birdwatching","tag-gadwall","tag-golden-plover","tag-goldeneye","tag-goosander","tag-lapwing","tag-mallard","tag-northeast-cetacean-project","tag-pink-footed-goose","tag-pochard","tag-redshank","tag-redwing","tag-teal","tag-waxwing","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}