Anyone who has followed our blog for some time will be very familiar with the important role that Otters have played in the development of NEWT over the last 18 years. Jessica Aldred’s article in the Guardian took our website from one or two visitors a day to 600 or more, and the number of enquiries we get about trips to look for Otters is about the same as enquiries about pelagic trips and dolphin spotting :-). Although COVID precipitated a change from us providing transport and food, and safari days lasting up to 10 hours, to our current half-day model where we have a pre-arranged meeting point and we walk (and occasionally drive in convoy) from there, Otters and the search for them has remained a constant throughout. We’ll be adding otter mini-safari dates for 2027 to our calendar in the next couple of months, but we’ve already taken bookings for May and September next year!
They’re wild animals and (generally) unpredictable, but there’s always lots of other wildlife to watch while we’re searching for them and sometimes they can even be overshadowed by other species (usually Barn Owl…) in the rich flora and fauna of Northumberland.
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