{"id":844,"date":"2011-02-08T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2011-02-08T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T11:37:29","slug":"early-morning-choppington-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/choppington-woods-northumberland\/early-morning-choppington-woods","title":{"rendered":"Early morning &#8211; Choppington Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning, and the ground underfoot varies from frozen crunchy to treacherously boggy.\u00a0 The sky overhead is a deep blue, the first rays of sunlight yet to bathe the fields, hedgerows and woodland in that magical golden glow. Clattering wings herald the departure of nearly 1000 <strong><em>Woodpigeons<\/em><\/strong> from their overnight roost, and a <strong><em>Blackbird<\/em><\/strong> rustles through the vegetation in the hedge bottom.\u00a0 A menacing shape carves through the air just above the treetops; the menacing flap-flap-glide of our local male <strong><em>Sparrowhawk<\/em><\/strong>, beating the bounds of his territory in search of the wintering flocks of <strong><em>Siskins, Redpolls, Crossbills, Chaffinches <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Bramblings<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The pungent scent of a <strong><em>Red Fox<\/em><\/strong> marks an area that I&#8217;ll want to stake out with my camera on another day, and as I head back towards home a <strong><em>Roe Deer<\/em><\/strong> springs across the path just a few metres ahead of me and disappears into the plantation just behind our house.\u00a0\u00a0An excellent\u00a0way to prepare for the day ahead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning, and the ground underfoot varies from frozen crunchy to treacherously boggy.\u00a0 The sky overhead is a deep blue, the first rays of sunlight yet to bathe the fields, hedgerows and woodland in that magical golden glow. Clattering wings herald the departure of nearly 1000 Woodpigeons from their overnight roost, and a Blackbird rustles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[133,118,102,444,847,293,66,89,131,158],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choppington-woods-northumberland","tag-blackbird","tag-brambling","tag-chaffinch","tag-crossbill","tag-red-fox","tag-redpoll","tag-roe-deer","tag-siskin","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-woodpigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}