{"id":2029,"date":"2013-08-06T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2013-08-06T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T09:13:20","slug":"supporting-cast-newts-north-sea-pelagic-19072013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/supporting-cast-newts-north-sea-pelagic-19072013","title":{"rendered":"Supporting cast; NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 19\/07\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late July there are a few species that we’d be amazed to not find on a North Sea pelagic<\/a> trip; Guillemot, Razorbill, Puffin, Kittiwake, Fulmar <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Gannet<\/strong> <\/em>are all great birds to see, and are all part of the experience that is the North Sea<\/strong> in mid-summer.\u00a0 There are other species that can overshadow the regular cast list though; Sooty Shearwater<\/strong><\/em> is a real ‘birders bird’, close views of any of the skuas<\/strong> <\/em>grab the attention and, with seabirds covering such vast distances, there’s always the possibility of something completely unexpected.\u00a0 But, for crowd-pleasing spectacular there’s little that can compete with our marine mammals.\u00a0 Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> often pop their heads up as we pass, but the real awe-inspiring species are whales<\/strong> <\/em>and dolphins<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Our previous pelagic<\/a> had been illuminated by Minke Whales<\/strong><\/em> but on this trip we were confident of finding a different species.\u00a0 Ten years of finding, studying, and mapping the distribution of, White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> gives us a narrow target area to search in the third week in July…<\/p>\n

As we headed north, a shout from Jimmy alerted everyone to the presence of a small pod of dolphins<\/strong> <\/em>ahead of us.\u00a0 Sure enough, the White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> came across to investigate our boat and we soon had 12 of them around us \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Once I was sure that everyone had seen them – which didn’t take too long! – I waited for them to surface alongside us so that I could take photographs of their dorsal fins.\u00a0 Through a combination of NEWT pelagic trips<\/a> and survey work for the North East Cetacean Project<\/a>, we’ve built up a catalogue of individual White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> off the Northumberland coast.\u00a0 Having been the first pelagic tour operator to regularly find White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> off the Northumberland coast, and the only one to have contributed to the Marine Conservation Zones<\/a> project, we’re proud to have been involved in leading the way in groundbreaking research to map the distribution and abundance of White-beaked Dolphins.<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>We’d like to thank all of our clients who’ve contributed, and continue to contribute, to the catalogue too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Of course, dolphin dorsal fin images aren’t the most exciting shots you can get, and the glassy calm water produced lots of other interesting possibilities…<\/p>\n

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In late July there are a few species that we’d be amazed to not find on a North Sea pelagic trip; Guillemot, Razorbill, Puffin, Kittiwake, Fulmar and Gannet are all great birds to see, and are all part of the experience that is the North Sea in mid-summer.\u00a0 There are other species that can overshadow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,561,105,5,141,90],"tags":[122,185,186,301,364,309,225,226,581,365,841],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-grey-seal","category-minke-whale-wildlife","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-white-beaked-dolphin","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-guillemot","tag-kittiwake","tag-manx-shearwater","tag-minke-whale","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-skua","tag-sooty-shearwater","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}