A lot of enquiries that we receive are along the lines of “we’d like to see a…”.\u00a0 Naturally, we do our best to oblige (and, far more often than not, successfully).<\/p>\n
Paul and Louise had a list of 5; Grey Seal<\/em><\/strong>, Puffin, Badger, <\/strong><\/em>Otter<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 and Kingfisher<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The first 2 were straightforward; a trip around the Farne Islands<\/a><\/strong> on Glad Tidings V<\/em> produced\u00a0plenty of each.\u00a0 We headed south towards Druridge Bay<\/a><\/strong> and enjoyed close views of a huge bull seal, as he hunted fish in the Coquet estuary.\u00a0 Our one Otter<\/em><\/strong> sighting of the day came at the NWT reserve of East Chevington<\/strong>; a young kit feeding in the North pool.\u00a0 With lots of terns, cormorants, geese and 3 Marsh Harriers<\/em><\/strong> and a Common Buzzard<\/em><\/strong>, there was plenty to see.\u00a0 Kingfisher<\/em><\/strong>, however, eluded us.\u00a0 They’ve been quite scarce this year, in fact, during 2011,\u00a0I’ve seen more of each of the other 4 targets for this trip than I have Kingfishers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n As the sun headed down towards the horizon, our favourite Badger<\/em><\/strong> sett once again produced the goods as a Badger <\/em><\/strong>passed within a few metres of us, completely unconcerned, before vanishing up an adjacent hillside to continue foraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lot of enquiries that we receive are along the lines of “we’d like to see a…”.\u00a0 Naturally, we do our best to oblige (and, far more often than not, successfully). Paul and Louise had a list of 5; Grey Seal, Puffin, Badger, Otter\u00a0 and Kingfisher.\u00a0 The first 2 were straightforward; a trip around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,5],"tags":[286,148,835,120,397,837,225],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-farnes","category-northumberland","tag-badger","tag-common-buzzard","tag-grey-seal","tag-kingfisher","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-otter","tag-puffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}