{"id":3507,"date":"2017-03-08T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2017-03-08T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:39:28","slug":"nature-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"Nature walk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The internet is a wonderful thing:\u00a0 you can find out about\u00a0almost anything you want.\u00a0 I have passed that gate countless times as I drive to and from Peterhead along the main road, but it was only when\u00a0 I was looking up information about the Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at \u00a0Longhaven Cliffs that I discovered there was now a parking place for visitors close to the village.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The new parking area has recently been created and the road to the old quarry where visitors used to park has been closed off by a locked gate because of people dumping rubbish up at the quarry.<\/p>\n

A great place\u00a0for a walk\u00a0with the dogs.\u00a0 So I followed the road up to the quarry and then onto the cliff top path.\u00a0 The dogs loved it, despite the wetness of the ground.\u00a0 Poppy particularly loved exploring.\u00a0 She seems to have no hint of vertigo,\u00a0\u00a0 There was quite some swell, and waves were crashing on the rocks below.\u00a0 The light was quite good, not the blue sky and sea that I had experienced last week, but still sunny and good enough for some pictures.<\/p>\n

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My big surprise was when I spied a group of grey seals resting on the rocks in a sea cave.\u00a0 It was really an arch,\u00a0with both ends open to the sea,\u00a0forming a curve so that you could not really see through it.\u00a0 There was just the hint of some waves at the sea end, while the seals were resting on the rocks now exposed by the receding tide in the gully below me.<\/p>\n

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Further on it was some Fulmars which got my attention as they\u00a0 circled over the cliff top.\u00a0 I managed a few pictures, and as I look at them, it always seemed to be the same bird I caught with my camera.\u00a0 A broken wing feather marked him out quite distinctly.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Too early yet for many flowers, but I did see one primrose in bloom, and the promise of some daffodils later.\u00a0 But it was the patch of snowdrops sheltered among the prink granite rocks that took my attention as we returned to the car.<\/p>\n

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You can see the pictures I took on my Flickr Page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The internet is a wonderful thing:\u00a0 you can find out about\u00a0almost anything you want.\u00a0 I have passed that gate countless times as I drive to and from Peterhead along the main road, but it was only when\u00a0 I was looking up information about the Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at \u00a0Longhaven Cliffs that I discovered there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}