As darkness descends it seems like a whole different world appears, and in the remnants of the daylight you need to be alert as the creatures that frequent the shadowy hours make an appearance.<\/p>\n
With Lawrie and Linda, Mike and Mary & Pat and Janice all safely in the car, we set off for an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay<\/a> and south east Northumberland on an Otter Safari<\/a>.\u00a0 One of the best things, about any wildlife that we go looking for, is that it’s in a series of superb wildlife-filled locations so there’s always something to look at.\u00a0 At this time of the year, that’s often passage waders like Dunlin<\/strong> <\/em>and Ruff<\/strong><\/em>, large roosting and feeding flocks of Lapwing<\/strong><\/em>, Golden Plover<\/strong><\/em> and Curlew<\/strong><\/em> and gatherings of Linnets<\/strong> <\/em>and Goldfinches<\/em><\/strong> in newly harvested fields.<\/p>\n Invariably, the part of the trip that I get really excited about is that bit that takes place in the half-light.\u00a0 As we walked along a riverbank, a Water Vole<\/strong><\/em> put in a very brief appearance and a Grey Heron<\/strong><\/em>, stalking through the shallows, took flight in alarm as Mallards<\/strong><\/em> hurried nervously away from the vegetation at the water’s edge.\u00a0 Something was unsettling them, and Lawrie soon picked up the menacing figure of an Otter<\/strong> <\/em>as it crossed the river.\u00a0 Two more brief sightings, as Daubenton’s Bats<\/strong><\/em> skimmed the water surface below us, and then it was too dark to make out any detail and we headed back, under a clear sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As darkness descends it seems like a whole different world appears, and in the remnants of the daylight you need to be alert as the creatures that frequent the shadowy hours make an appearance. With Lawrie and Linda, Mike and Mary & Pat and Janice all safely in the car, we set off for an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,139],"tags":[172,288,175,103,283,123,140,171,837,241,857],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-golden-plover","tag-goldfinch","tag-grey-heron","tag-lapwing","tag-linnet","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-ruff","tag-water-vole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}