{"id":1325,"date":"2011-09-19T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2011-09-19T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:59:21","slug":"long-lazy-swell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/long-lazy-swell","title":{"rendered":"Long, lazy swell"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was on the coast just south of Cresswell on Friday evening, I didn’t hold out much hope for Saturday’s pelagic<\/a> going ahead;\u00a0 a menacing sea, with waves forming towering peaks, didn’t\u00a0look likely to abate.<\/p>\n

However, the sea is often fickle and Saturday saw nothing more than a long, lazy swell as we set sail into the North Sea for a day of offshore birdwatching along the coastlines of Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Conditions changed throughout the day with, at times, the sea as calm as a millpond.\u00a0 3 ‘Blue’ Fulmars<\/strong><\/em>, 5 Great Skuas<\/strong><\/em>, a probable Pomarine Skua<\/strong><\/em>, 3 Arctic Skuas<\/strong><\/em>, 5 Sooty Shearwaters<\/strong><\/em>, 4\u00a0Red-throated Divers<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a02 Manx Shearwaters<\/strong><\/em>, Teal<\/strong><\/em>, Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes, Gannets, Mediterranean Gulls <\/em><\/strong>and Swallows! <\/em><\/strong>were all appreciated and a Grey Seal<\/em><\/strong> and 2 Harbour Porpoises<\/em><\/strong> added some mammalian interest.<\/p>\n

\"Gannet,Northumberland,offshore<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Fulmar,offshore<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Sooty<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Mediterranean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was on the coast just south of Cresswell on Friday evening, I didn’t hold out much hope for Saturday’s pelagic going ahead;\u00a0 a menacing sea, with waves forming towering peaks, didn’t\u00a0look likely to abate. However, the sea is often fickle and Saturday saw nothing more than a long, lazy swell as we set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,20,105,5,141,139],"tags":[362,497,122,185,363,835,240,301,364,193,387,69,365],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-druridge","category-grey-seal","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-arctic-skua","tag-blue-fulmar","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-great-skua","tag-grey-seal","tag-harbour-porpoise","tag-kittiwake","tag-manx-shearwater","tag-mediterranean-gull","tag-pomarine-skua","tag-red-throated-diver","tag-sooty-shearwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}