When Sarah arrived home from work at 19:30 yesterday, I suggested a spot of nocturnal motorised birdwatching.<\/p>\n
We headed north past Ellington and up to Widdrington before\u00a0turning towards the coast and\u00a0down through Druridge.\u00a0 With the thermometer hitting -7C, the ungritted roads were a bit of a challenge.\u00a0 Following\u00a0some recent big counts of Woodcock<\/em><\/strong> it was no great surprise that they flushed regularly from the roadside as we passed.\u00a0 Our main target for the drive was Barn Owl<\/em><\/strong>, and we eventually found one perched on a post beside the Spine Road near Blyth.\u00a0 Bird of the evening though was a stunning Long-eared Owl<\/em><\/strong>, on a fence post by the edge of the road.\u00a0 As we passed slowly, on the skating rink of a road surface, it turned it’s head imperiously, following us with those piercing orange eyes.\u00a0 Over the last 3 years we’ve shared views of all of Northumberland’s regularly occurring owls with our clients, but for sheer ‘other-worldliness’ you really can’t beat\u00a0Long-eared Owl<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Sarah arrived home from work at 19:30 yesterday, I suggested a spot of nocturnal motorised birdwatching. We headed north past Ellington and up to Widdrington before\u00a0turning towards the coast and\u00a0down through Druridge.\u00a0 With the thermometer hitting -7C, the ungritted roads were a bit of a challenge.\u00a0 Following\u00a0some recent big counts of Woodcock it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,107,5],"tags":[97,823,174,220,71],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-family-and-friends","category-northumberland","tag-barn-owl","tag-birdwatching","tag-long-eared-owl","tag-northumberland-birdwatching","tag-woodcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}