{"id":2519,"date":"2014-08-05T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2014-08-05T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:54:30","slug":"a-game-of-two-halves-newts-north-sea-pelagic-25072014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/a-game-of-two-halves-newts-north-sea-pelagic-25072014","title":{"rendered":"A game of two halves; NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 25\/07\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the oddest pelagics in 17 years of organising them.\u00a0 Started with absolutely mirror-calm sea, bringing some of the best photographic opportunites with Fulmar<\/strong><\/em>, Kittiwake<\/strong><\/em> and Lesser Black-backed Gull<\/strong><\/em> that I’ve ever encountered, progressed through sightings of adult and calf White-beaked Dolphin<\/strong><\/em>, adult and calf Minke Whale<\/strong><\/em> and Harbour Porpoise,<\/strong><\/em> then on to flocks of Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em> appearing out of the descending mist…and finished with visibility down to less than 50m!<\/p>\n

\"Lesser<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Black-legged<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a><\/p>\n

\"White-beaked<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Minke<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Common<\/a><\/p>\n

We’ve still got a few spaces on our Farne Deeps trips, which are our best trips for encountering White-beaked Dolphin<\/strong><\/em> and other marine mammals, on 12th and 28th August from Royal Quays, and our birdwatching-focused trips from Royal Quays on 23rd August, 6th September and 13th September.\u00a0 Our Whale and Dolphin Cruise from Seahouses on 30th August is an excellent introduction to offshore wildlife for all the family too \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Give us a call on 01670 827465 for more details, or have a look at our North Sea pelagic page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the oddest pelagics in 17 years of organising them.\u00a0 Started with absolutely mirror-calm sea, bringing some of the best photographic opportunites with Fulmar, Kittiwake and Lesser Black-backed Gull that I’ve ever encountered, progressed through sightings of adult and calf White-beaked Dolphin, adult and calf Minke Whale and Harbour Porpoise, then on to flocks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,5],"tags":[67,122,240,301,499,309,841],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","tag-common-scoter","tag-fulmar","tag-harbour-porpoise","tag-kittiwake","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-minke-whale","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}