We’ve just finished a run of 3 late finishes in 3 days…and we’re looking forward to more over the next couple of months \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Tuesday was our latest Otter Safari<\/a>\u00a0and I collected Steve & Marilyn, Nigel\u00a0& Jane and Vince\u00a0& Karin from Church Point before heading north through Druridge Bay<\/a>.\u00a0 After a tour of the coast that included a fantastic fly-past by a male Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> at East Chevington and an impromptu ‘terns and gulls’ ID session we setttled into position by one of our favourite Otter <\/strong><\/em>spots.\u00a0 We didn’t see anything other than mild panic amongst the waterfowl, and the elusive predator remained, well elusive.\u00a0 A Barn Owl<\/em><\/strong> flying past was so close that the view was like a whiteout through binoculars, but eventually we had to admit defeat when it was simply too dark to see anything.\u00a0 That’s the thing about wildlife…but if it was always predictable it would be boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve just finished a run of 3 late finishes in 3 days…and we’re looking forward to more over the next couple of months \ud83d\ude42 Tuesday was our latest Otter Safari\u00a0and I collected Steve & Marilyn, Nigel\u00a0& Jane and Vince\u00a0& Karin from Church Point before heading north through Druridge Bay.\u00a0 After a tour of the coast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,5,21,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-otter","category-southeast-northumberland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}