{"id":976,"date":"2011-04-06T06:58:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T06:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2011-04-06T06:58:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T06:58:31","slug":"subjected-to-the-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/subjected-to-the-elements","title":{"rendered":"Subjected to the elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Druridge Bay\/southeast Northumberland\u00a0mini-safari at the end of last week &#8216;enjoyed&#8217; a range of weather conditions;\u00a0 after collecting Richard and Maureen from Blyth, we set off for the Coquet estuary.\u00a0 Howling winds and sheets of rain didn&#8217;t deter us though, and using the car as a birdwatching hide we had excellent views of <em><strong>Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Redshank <\/strong><\/em>and <em><strong>Wigeon<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 A real highlight of the morning was a\u00a0young male <em><strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em>, hunting the coastal reedbeds.\u00a0 With a range of waders and wildfowl to fill the &#8216;scope, and the weather improving to bright sunshine, the morning was all too soon over and I was on my way home to wash and clean the car ready for our next trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Druridge Bay\/southeast Northumberland\u00a0mini-safari at the end of last week &#8216;enjoyed&#8217; a range of weather conditions;\u00a0 after collecting Richard and Maureen from Blyth, we set off for the Coquet estuary.\u00a0 Howling winds and sheets of rain didn&#8217;t deter us though, and using the car as a birdwatching hide we had excellent views of Grey Herons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,139],"tags":[372,168,283,397,358,181],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-cormorant","tag-goldeneye","tag-grey-heron","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-redshank","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}