We were very lucky this weekend to enjoy some hot sunny weather.<\/p>\n
Tyne Green Country Park \u2013 Hexham<\/strong><\/p>\n This Saturday we travelled to Hexham to enjoy a nice lunch at the new restaurant \u2018The Hextol Tans\u2019, followed by a relaxing walk in Tyne Green Country Park.\u00a0 The river was alive with activity, with Black-headed Gulls, surfing down the river, Grey Herons & Goosanders fishing nearby and resident Mallards relaxing in the sun.\u00a0 The highlight however was male Mandarin<\/strong>, which was most unexpected and great to see.\u00a0 We recently returned from a trip to the Peak District, where there is a healthy population of 40 plus in Buxton, but this is the first time we had recorded one at Hexham.\u00a0 This being the fourth site this year we have seen Mandarin the other two being Kielder and Holywell Pond.<\/p>\n Morpeth<\/strong><\/p>\n On the Sunday we enjoyed a relaxing walk along the river at Morpeth, which proved productive, despite being busy.\u00a0 First we picked up a Grey Wagtail, followed by a Dipper<\/strong> which was not far from the rowing boats.\u00a0 Whilst enjoying the views from the bridges, a Kingfisher<\/strong> passed us, brightening up the river and announcing it\u2019s passing, calling as it went.\u00a0 Before we arrived we talked about how we might see these three species, so it felt pretty rewarding to find all three and so quickly.\u00a0 A trip to Morpeth is always well worth it.\u00a0 The outdoor Chinese there is always a favourite for us.<\/p>\n Bolam Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n Next we travelled to Bolam Lake, which at this time of year is very beautiful and always a great walk.\u00a0 The lake was pretty quiet this evening, with only a few Mute Swans and Mallards in attendance.\u00a0 The scenery however was impressive.<\/p>\n Paul & Adriana Buskin<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were very lucky this weekend to enjoy some hot sunny weather. Tyne Green Country Park \u2013 Hexham This Saturday we travelled to Hexham to enjoy a nice lunch at the new restaurant \u2018The Hextol Tans\u2019, followed by a relaxing walk in Tyne Green Country Park.\u00a0 The river was alive with activity, with Black-headed Gulls, […]<\/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-8686","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\/8686","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=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8703,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions\/8703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}