Sunday and Monday illustrated the range of things that NEWT do on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
Sunday saw me leaving the office at 03:30 and driving to Alnwick.\u00a0 Highlight of the drive was a Barn Owl<\/em><\/strong>, hunting alongside the A1 near Eshott.\u00a0 After collecting Helen and Steve, two of our returning clients,\u00a0we headed to Bamburgh, and a rendezvous with the sunrise.\u00a0 Landscape photography tuition was first on the menu, followed by some macro photography around the rock pools at low tide.\u00a0 All the while, the crowds were building further along the beach in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle, enjoying views of the Black Scoter<\/em><\/strong> just offshore.\u00a0 Once the sun was well above the horizon, and the shadows were\u00a0getting too harsh, it was time to drive back to Alnwick.<\/p>\n A walk around Choppington Woods in the afternoon produced plenty of butterflies, Small White<\/strong><\/em>, Large White<\/strong><\/em>, Small Tortoiseshell<\/strong><\/em>, Peacock <\/strong><\/em>and Comma<\/strong><\/em>, and the unexpected patch tick of Hooded Crow<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 We weren’t finished yet though, and\u00a0 an evening excursion in southeast Northumberland produced excellent views of 2 of our favourites; Tawny Owl <\/strong><\/em>and Badger<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n Yesterday morning, the day dawned\u00a0overcast and calm; ideal for our latest Northeast Cetacean Project Transect Survey.\u00a0 I met up with Maeve, Claire, Rachael and Steve at Royal Quays and we set out on just about the flattest sea I’ve ever seen.\u00a0 Even 4 miles offshore it was glassy calm.\u00a0 Cetacean sightings were down compared to the February\/March surveys, with a pod of 4 Harbour <\/strong><\/em>Porpoises being the only sighting of the day.\u00a0 Avian highlights were our\u00a0first Manx Shearwater\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> and Pomarine Skua<\/em><\/strong> for the year, and lots of Puffins<\/em><\/strong> throughout the day.<\/p>\n Now it’s Tuesday morning and I’m getting ready for 9\u00a0tours with clients in the next 11 days.\u00a0 Hopefully I’ll find time to blog…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday and Monday illustrated the range of things that NEWT do on a regular basis. Sunday saw me leaving the office at 03:30 and driving to Alnwick.\u00a0 Highlight of the drive was a Barn Owl, hunting alongside the A1 near Eshott.\u00a0 After collecting Helen and Steve, two of our returning clients,\u00a0we headed to Bamburgh, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,98,5,16,139],"tags":[286,97,462,466,342,240,467,463,364,465,312,387,58,464,343,78],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-choppington-woods-northumberland","category-northumberland","category-photography","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-badger","tag-barn-owl","tag-black-scoter","tag-comma","tag-green-veined-white","tag-harbour-porpoise","tag-hooded-crow","tag-large-white","tag-manx-shearwater","tag-peacock","tag-photography-tuition","tag-pomarine-skua","tag-puffins","tag-small-tortoiseshell","tag-small-white","tag-tawny-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}