{"id":917,"date":"2011-03-07T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-04-16T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T11:35:27","slug":"getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/getting-ready","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just had an all too infrequent ocurrence; both of us at home and able to go out and about together\u00a0for a whole weekend \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On Saturday we decided to concentrate on our local area.\u00a0 Southeast Northumberland offers some excellent wildlife and birdwatching opportunities and, with bookings for the rest of this year coming thick and fast, we’re checking over our Safari Day routes whenever we get the chance so that we hit the ground running once the season gets properly underway.<\/p>\n

If our morning excursion is the shape of things to come then it’s going to be an excellent Spring \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Little Owl<\/em><\/strong>, Roe Deer<\/em><\/strong> (including a handsome buck with velvet antlers, who watched us between the trees as we trained our binoculars on him),\u00a0Red Squirrel<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0point-blank views of Treecreeper<\/em><\/strong>, Nuthatch<\/em><\/strong> and Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/em><\/strong> and lots of fresh Otter<\/em><\/strong> spraint all combined into a memorable morning.<\/p>\n

As dusk approached we were out and about again.\u00a0 We monitor a few Badger<\/em><\/strong> setts regularly and the activity around the sett we checked on Saturday evening was exactly what we’d expect in early March.\u00a0 Another successful outing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Yesterday we were doing something completely different (although birdwatching featured again, of course).\u00a0 We set out for the southwestern border of Northumberland, and beyond, as we pre-walked the route that Martin will be leading for the North Pennines AONB ‘Know Your North Pennines’ course on Wednesday.\u00a0 Journeying to Upper Teesdale gave us the chance to check out some of our favourite Black Grouse <\/strong><\/em>sites en route<\/em> (you’ll be pleased to know that the species hasn’t vanished from Northern England!) and enjoy the sight of Lapwings<\/em><\/strong> displaying and flocks of Golden Plover<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 in the fields.\u00a0 Our photography holiday in late October ‘Autumn Colours’<\/a>\u00a0is based in the North Pennines and we finished the day with a visit to one of the area’s gems.<\/p>\n

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We just had an all too infrequent ocurrence; both of us at home and able to go out and about together\u00a0for a whole weekend \ud83d\ude42 On Saturday we decided to concentrate on our local area.\u00a0 Southeast Northumberland offers some excellent wildlife and birdwatching opportunities and, with bookings for the rest of this year coming thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,5,16,139],"tags":[286,54,175,25,123,72,454,453,452,300,837,455,833,66,338],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-pennines","category-northumberland","category-photography","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-badger","tag-black-grouse","tag-golden-plover","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-lapwing","tag-little-owl","tag-low-force","tag-north-pennines-aonb","tag-northumberland-birdwatching-guides","tag-nuthatch","tag-otter","tag-photography-holidays","tag-red-squirrel","tag-roe-deer","tag-treecreeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}