{"id":1122,"date":"2011-06-30T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:32:10","slug":"cetacean-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/cetacean-season","title":{"rendered":"Cetacean season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach July, there&#8217;s always a sense of anticipation when we&#8217;re close to the sea on a land-based trip, or at sea on one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=15\" target=\"_blank\">Northumberland Pelagics<\/a>.\u00a0 Good seawatching conditions over the next few months will see us gazing towards the east when the opportunity arises.\u00a0 Seawatching may be one of the more specialised aspects of birdwatching, but it brings\u00a0an element of unpredictability that can outweigh even our evening mammal trips.<\/p>\n<p>After good cetacean sightings in February and March, while carrying out transect surveys for the Northeast Cetacean Project (NECP), I was excited to receive 2 reports of land-based observations on Sunday and Tuesday;\u00a0 a possible pod of 5 <em><strong>Orcas <\/strong><\/em>was seen heading south past Lynemouth on Sunday evening and then 4 <em><strong>White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> were off the mouth of the River Wansbeck on Tuesday evening.\u00a0 The second of these species is the one that we&#8217;re most interested in, after all it is the primary focus for the NECP, however Sunday&#8217;s report set the pulse racing; almost mythical off the Northeast coast, maybe the ultimate apex predator,\u00a0right at the top of the list of our\u00a0&#8216;most-wanted&#8217;.\u00a0 Maybe this will be the year when we finally connect with it, and my dreams about our forthcoming Farne Deeps pelagics seem to involve something black and white \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 We&#8217;ve still got spaces on those 2 trips so give us a call on 01670 827465 to book your place now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach July, there&#8217;s always a sense of anticipation when we&#8217;re close to the sea on a land-based trip, or at sea on one of our Northumberland Pelagics.\u00a0 Good seawatching conditions over the next few months will see us gazing towards the east when the opportunity arises.\u00a0 Seawatching may be one of the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105,5,141],"tags":[361,356,460,841],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","tag-northeast-cetacean-project","tag-northumberland-pelagics","tag-orca","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}