{"id":1997,"date":"2013-07-06T10:11:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T09:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T09:11:57","slug":"sunset-spectacular-newts-north-sea-pelagic-280613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/sunset-spectacular-newts-north-sea-pelagic-280613","title":{"rendered":"Sunset spectacular; NEWT&#8217;s North Sea Pelagic 28\/06\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen some fantastic wildlife during the 16 years that I&#8217;ve been running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=15\" target=\"_blank\">pelagics in the North Sea<\/a> off Northumberland; <em><strong>Wilson&#8217;s Petrel, Great Shearwater, Grey <\/strong><\/em>and<strong> <\/strong><em><strong>Red-necked Phalaropes, Sabine&#8217;s Gull, Ocean Sunfish, Minke Whale <\/strong><\/em>and<strong><\/strong><em><strong> White-beaked Dolphin<\/strong><\/em> are just a few of the highlights.\u00a0 One thing that so many clients mention though, is just what an experience it is to be offshore approaching sunset and to see the Northumberland coast in a different light (no pun intended!).<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday brought a reasonable amount of swell, the &#8216;usual suspects&#8217; &#8211; <em><strong>Gannet, Fulmar, Kittiwake, Guillemot, Puffin, Razorbill, Manx Shearwater<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; and a dense feeding flock of <em><strong>terns<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>gulls<\/strong> <\/em>just off Cresswell.\u00a0 The other thing the trip brought though was probably the best sunset I&#8217;ve ever seen on a pelagic.\u00a0 As the sun dropped out of sight and we were approaching the Tyne piers, the sky away to the northwest was a stunning pinky-orange.\u00a0 Some things really do take your breath away \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen some fantastic wildlife during the 16 years that I&#8217;ve been running pelagics in the North Sea off Northumberland; Wilson&#8217;s Petrel, Great Shearwater, Grey and Red-necked Phalaropes, Sabine&#8217;s Gull, Ocean Sunfish, Minke Whale and White-beaked Dolphin are just a few of the highlights.\u00a0 One thing that so many clients mention though, is just what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105,5],"tags":[122,185,579,368,301,309,578,225,226,576,514,841],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-great-shearwater","tag-grey-phalarope","tag-kittiwake","tag-minke-whale","tag-ocean-sunfish","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-red-necked-phalarope","tag-sabines-gull","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}