{"id":1279,"date":"2011-09-05T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T10:25:01","slug":"out-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/out-to-sea","title":{"rendered":"Out to sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a week in which I carried out 2 offshore surveys for the Northeast Cetacean Project<\/a>, and attended a meeting of the PAW Marine Wildlife Enforcement Working Group, it was\u00a0fitting to end with an 8hr pelagic off the coast of southeast Northumberland and Druridge Bay.\u00a0 Birdwatching from a boat off our coastline has to be one of the most enjoyable ways to spend a Saturday in early September, and this was no exception.<\/p>\n

Most of the birds were concentrated well offshore and we had excellent views of Gannet<\/strong><\/em>, Great Skua<\/strong><\/em>, Kittiwake<\/strong><\/em> and Fulmar<\/strong><\/em> (including one of my favourite birds, a\u00a0‘blue’ Fulmar<\/strong><\/em>).\u00a0 ‘blue’ Fulmar<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0may be just a colour morph of our regular Fulmar<\/em><\/strong> but it’s an exciting bird on a pelagic, so\u00a0I made sure everyone knew it was there, and we enjoyed several fly-bys and it kept diving into the melee while we\u00a0were ‘chumming’.\u00a0 \u00a0Great Crested Grebe, Arctic Skua<\/strong><\/em>, Sooty Shearwater<\/strong><\/em> and Manx Shearwater<\/strong><\/em> all passed by but didn’t linger, a single cetacean was seen distantly and we engaged in some more\u00a0‘chumming’ just off Newbiggin with the intention of providing close views of Mediterranean Gull<\/strong><\/em> for all on board.<\/p>\n

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