{"id":469292,"date":"2026-03-11T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:34:07","slug":"your-north-east-and-cumbria-wildlife-photos-as-spring-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469292\/","title":{"rendered":"Your North East and Cumbria wildlife photos as spring on its way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Photographers have shared their images of wildlife as spring swings into season in the North East and Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Rayner, from Ulverston, came across an adder basking in the sunshine last week, while Neil Coleran waited patiently for a resident barn owl to swoop over Druridge Bay country park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/articles\/zwwn239#zttrs82\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spring equinox in the UK<\/a> will take place on 20 March, marking the beginning of spring on the astronomical calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Newcastle Great Park, Dave Howarth said he had &#8220;seen the marvel of a starling murmuration&#8221;, adding it was &#8220;just incredible&#8221;, while Dawn Charlton was visiting Castlerigg Stone Circle when she saw a chaffinch checking out its reflection in a car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographers have shared their images of wildlife as spring swings into season in the North East and Cumbria.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-469292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}