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Shadow hunter; Otter mini-Safari 27/03/18
The rain that started soon after I collected Marilyn, Pam, John and Jen & Anne and Bridget from Church Point had passed over and there was a touch of azure beyond the clouds overhead… An obliging Little Owl had given us a stare from it’s perch in a bare tree as we head up the…
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Breezy with a chance of Otters 🙂 Otter Safari 21/03/18
Yesterday morning was glorious; blue sky, fluffy white clouds, not much a of a breeze. By the time I collected Jon and Lesley from Church Point ahead of an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay searching for Otters it was cloudy, cold, breezy and the first few drops of rain had patterned the car windscreen……
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Mum to the rescue; an Otter encounter 24/01/18
After Tuesday’s Otter Safari, and spectacularly close view of three Otters, I headed back out yesterday with my camera. The wind direction had changed, and not for the better, and the breeze had strengthened to bone-chilling… In the fast flowing water one of the Otter cubs was struggling and became separated from it’s mother and…
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A tiding; Bespoke Otter Safari 27/11/17
Yesterday was a rearranged trip from late March; Trevor had booked an bespoke Otter Safari for Linda’s birthday, then two days before the original date I was knocked off my bike by a car and had a heavy fall that saw me unable to work for a week (and is still causing some ongoing niggles). …
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mid-October birding; Otter Safari 19/10/17
There isn’t much that’s better than mid-October birdwatching. The quiet periods of waiting and observing during an Otter Safari can be filled with all sorts of marvels at this time of the year… I collected John and Stella from home in Cramlington and we headed to the coast. The first of several flocks of Redwing…
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Last light; Otter Safari 24/02/17
After some wild weather the blue skies and fluffy white clouds, as I set off for a day searching for Otters around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland with Jo, Pat, Rachel and Dave, came as a welcome sight… Now that we’re in the late winter, wildfowl are looking at their finest and are starting to…
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Patience; Otter Safari 04/02/17
I collected Roger and Jackie from The Swan and then Edward and Isabel from Church Point and we headed off in search of Otters around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland. After watching Little Grebe, Cormorant and Goldeneye all fishing unmolested by sinuous predators we moved on to our second site for the day and the…