Our first blog post of 2011 has been slightly delayed by some technical difficulties, but we’re up and running again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
We decided that the first few days of the year would be spent birdwatching around southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 New Year’s Day saw us spending a couple of relaxed hours around Druridge Bay, producing 63 different bird species…followed by a very cold, windswept seawatch from Snab Point as we waited for the Humpback Whale<\/em><\/strong> found by Mark Newsome and Steve Addinall at Whitburn.\u00a0 It didn’t pass by us (at least not at the\u00a0sea surface) but hopefully it will herald another excellent year for cetacean sightings off the northeast coast.\u00a0 With the cetacean species accounts for ‘Mammals of the Northeast’ to write, Martin will be hoping for more additions to the already comprehensive Northeast Cetacean database as the year progresses.<\/p>\n Sunday was a family and friends day at the christening, and then birthday party, for Annabel, Sarah’s god-daughter.\u00a0 The only new bird for the year was our garden speciality Willow Tit<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Another relaxed birdwatching day yesterday produced, amongst others,\u00a0a Waxwing<\/em><\/strong>, 5 Goosanders<\/em><\/strong>, 2 Grey Wagtails<\/em><\/strong> and 2 Nuthatches<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 All very attractive birds, that brought a warm glow\u00a0to a cold winter’s day.<\/p>\n Now the working week starts again, and we’re busy dealing with enquiries, bookings and 3 major projects that we’re going to be involved in this year.\u00a0 There’s always time for a spot of birdwatching or photography though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our first blog post of 2011 has been slightly delayed by some technical difficulties, but we’re up and running again \ud83d\ude42 We decided that the first few days of the year would be spent birdwatching around southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 New Year’s Day saw us spending a couple of relaxed hours around Druridge Bay, producing 63 different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,107,5,139],"tags":[378,256,432,361,300,180,28],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-family-and-friends","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-goosander","tag-grey-wagtail","tag-humpback-whale","tag-northeast-cetacean-project","tag-nuthatch","tag-waxwing","tag-willow-tit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}