{"id":1663,"date":"2012-06-13T06:22:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2012-06-14T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T15:31:10","slug":"triumph-over-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/triumph-over-adversity","title":{"rendered":"Triumph over adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The changing weather on Thursday afternoon hadn&#8217;t filled me with confidence for Friday&#8217;s bespoke birdwatching and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=13\" target=\"_blank\">Otter Safari<\/a>\u00a0and, as the rain hammered against my office window on Friday morning, several &#8216;phone conversations with Vicky explored our options for the day.\u00a0 Eventually we settled on starting early evening and going through until dark &#8211; perhaps that way the rain would have passed over?<\/p>\n<p>As I arrived at Shieldhall to collect Vicky and Dave, it was still looking like an &#8216;interesting&#8217; evening.\u00a0 We made our way to our favourite <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> site and had our picnic in the car.\u00a0 The rain stopped&#8230;and was replaced by heavy mist \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Never mind, we&#8217;ve had some\u00a0fantastic wildlife experiences with clients in misty conditions so we made our way to the pool and settled into position and waited.\u00a0 All seemed calm, and it was only out of the corner of my eye that I thought I saw a distant, small black shape vanishing beneath the water&#8217;s surface.\u00a0 As I turned my binoculars in that direction, a <em><strong>Mute Swan<\/strong><\/em> began hissing and the <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> resurfaced \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 As the insistent alarm calls of <em><strong>Blackbirds<\/strong><\/em> rattled in the distance (perhaps they&#8217;d found a <em><strong>Long-eared Owl<\/strong><\/em> to harrass?) the <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> made it&#8217;s way menacingly across the water before finally disappearing into the dark depths of the reedbed.\u00a0 Even when the weather&#8217;s inclement life goes on for our wildlife and, so long as we can stay reasonably sheltered and it isn&#8217;t too dark to see, excellent wildlife experiences still happen \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The changing weather on Thursday afternoon hadn&#8217;t filled me with confidence for Friday&#8217;s bespoke birdwatching and\u00a0Otter Safari\u00a0and, as the rain hammered against my office window on Friday morning, several &#8216;phone conversations with Vicky explored our options for the day.\u00a0 Eventually we settled on starting early evening and going through until dark &#8211; perhaps that way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[133,174,178,837],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northumberland","category-otter","tag-blackbird","tag-long-eared-owl","tag-mute-swan","tag-otter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","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=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}