{"id":2009,"date":"2013-07-17T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:36:57","slug":"jumping-ship-newts-north-sea-pelagic-120713-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/jumping-ship-newts-north-sea-pelagic-120713-part-1","title":{"rendered":"Jumping ship; NEWT&#8217;s North Sea Pelagic 12\/07\/13 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our fourth evening pelagic for 2013 was last Friday, and it was looking like I wasn&#8217;t going to make it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>05:00 and the alarm cuts through my slumber.\u00a0 I get out of bed, go downstairs and make coffee.\u00a0 Camera equipment, cetacean survey kit (gps, rangefinder binoculars, recording forms) and food had been sorted out on Thursday evening so no rush.<\/p>\n<p>06:00 I board the <em>St Oswald<\/em> for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastcetaceans.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">North East Cetacean Project<\/a> transect survey with Steve and Charlotte as my survey team members, and within minutes we&#8217;re sailing out of the Tyne.\u00a0 Then I find out that our route for the day has changed and we&#8217;re not due back into Royal Quays until 20:00!\u00a0 A quick text to Sarah &#8216;&#8230;we might not be back until 8!!! Can you lead the pelagic for me if I&#8217;m not back please?&#8217; received a response that would shock anyone who knows her \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 A quick exchange of texts and all was sorted&#8230;Sarah is very popular with our clients, and Allan and Jimmy are by some distance the most experienced pelagic boat crew in the North East so I settled, relaxed, to a day of surveying.<\/p>\n<p>Small groups of <em><strong>White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Harbour Porpoises<\/strong><\/em> were found throughout the day, and 2 <em><strong>Minke Whales<\/strong><\/em> added some &#8216;bulk&#8217; to our sightings.\u00a0 By 17:00 I was texting a route, based on the last 11h of observations, for the evening pelagic to Sarah and Allan.\u00a0 With the flooding tide hastening our southward journey we knew that we would be passing the <em>SarahJFK<\/em> somewhere around North Shields Fish Quay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fourth evening pelagic for 2013 was last Friday, and it was looking like I wasn&#8217;t going to make it&#8230; 05:00 and the alarm cuts through my slumber.\u00a0 I get out of bed, go downstairs and make coffee.\u00a0 Camera equipment, cetacean survey kit (gps, rangefinder binoculars, recording forms) and food had been sorted out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,561,105,5],"tags":[240,309,580,366,841],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-minke-whale-wildlife","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","tag-harbour-porpoise","tag-minke-whale","tag-north-east-cetacean-project","tag-north-sea-pelagic","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","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=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}