{"id":8160,"date":"2016-06-09T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2016-06-12T22:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T22:27:31","slug":"5th-9th-june-2016-northumberand-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8160","title":{"rendered":"5th-9th June 2016 &#8211; Northumberand Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have just finished leading the Naturetrek tour around Northumberland. Clients were\u00a0exceptionally lucky to have six days with no rain , no wind &amp; mostly sunny. Started\u00a0on 5th after collecting people from Newcastle with visits to Cresswell Pond &amp;\u00a0Druridge Pools. Excellent views of the <strong>Great White Egret<\/strong> at Druridge plus breeding\u00a0plumage Ruff. Monday was a wander around Holy Island followed by a look at Budle Bay, Bamburgh &amp; Spindlestone woods. Quiet unsurprisingly. Tuesday had Long Nanny\u00a0estuary &amp; Low Newton with Coquet Island in afternoon. Boat trip was dead calm &amp;\u00a0managed to get quite close to the <strong>Roseate Terns<\/strong>. Wednesday was a whole day on Farne\u00a0Islands. Very lucky to be able to land on Staple Island as first boat to do so in 11\u00a0days due to tide swell &amp; low tides. Inner Farne was at its very best with Arctic\u00a0Terns having just hatched and all the normal seabird species easily accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0last whole day Thursday had a change away from coast with a visit to Harthope\u00a0Valley, Ingram (cafe superb!), Branton GP &amp; Rothbury. Beautiful sunny day &amp; a real\u00a0delight in Cheviots. No real surprises bird wise but a good range of upland species. \u00a0Finally on return to Newcastle we visited all the Druridge Bay sites with 4 Manx\u00a0Shearwaters off Snab Pt a welcome highlight. Then with best left to last the\u00a0<strong>Bonaparte&#8217;s Gull<\/strong> performed admirably E of the A189 flyover on the Wansbeck estuary. \u00a0Delighted clients returned home well pleased with all the main specialities seen\u00a0except some of the harder upland birds. 119 species equaled last years total.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Tim Dean\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5171.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5171.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5171\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5171.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5171-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5383-Copy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5383-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5383 - Copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5383-Copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5383-Copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5339-Copy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5339-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5339 - Copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5339-Copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5339-Copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5358-Copy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5358-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5358 - Copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5358-Copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5358-Copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5240-Copy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5240-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_5240 - Copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5240-Copy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_5240-Copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have just finished leading the Naturetrek tour around Northumberland. Clients were\u00a0exceptionally lucky to have six days with no rain , no wind &amp; mostly sunny. Started\u00a0on 5th after collecting people from Newcastle with visits to Cresswell Pond &amp;\u00a0Druridge Pools. Excellent views of the Great White Egret at Druridge plus breeding\u00a0plumage Ruff. Monday was a wander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}