{"id":2603,"date":"2014-08-07T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:50:53","slug":"curtain-call-newts-north-sea-pelagic-06082014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/curtain-call-newts-north-sea-pelagic-06082014","title":{"rendered":"Curtain call; NEWT’s North Sea pelagic 06\/08\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our last couple of evening pelagics each year tend to finish in near darkness as we arrive back at Royal Quays.\u00a0 We have such long daylight hours during the middle of the summer up here, that it comes as a bit of a shock when it starts getting dark by 10pm \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Yesterday was our final evening pelagic for this year, and conditions weren’t as good as they’d beeen on most of the previous sailings; a reasonable amount of swell, choppy surface and occasional whitecaps don’t make for easy observation.\u00a0 We knew where both White-beaked<\/strong><\/em> and Bottlenose Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> had been seen on Tuesday though, so that would give us a fighting chance.\u00a0 Guillemots<\/strong><\/em> were rising and falling with the swell, Kittiwakes<\/strong><\/em>, Herring Gulls<\/strong><\/em> and Lesser Black-backed Gulls<\/strong><\/em> were following us throughout the evening and Gannets<\/strong><\/em> soared majestically on the breeze.\u00a0 A Grey Seal<\/strong><\/em> was bottling as we sailed by and, just off Lynemouth, we began making our way south.\u00a0 Then a call from Hector “Martin, over there!”.\u00a0 Three White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em>, then five \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 With a very small calf among them, this was another opportunity to study how their behaviour differs from dolphins without young calves, and our observations will be included in the next report of our White-beaked Dolphin<\/strong><\/em> research off Northumberland, and add more to the collective knowledge about these beautiful animals \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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

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

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

That may be the end of our evening pelagics for 2014, but 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":"

Our last couple of evening pelagics each year tend to finish in near darkness as we arrive back at Royal Quays.\u00a0 We have such long daylight hours during the middle of the summer up here, that it comes as a bit of a shock when it starts getting dark by 10pm \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Yesterday was our […]<\/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":[330,185,835,186,143,301,499,225,841],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","tag-bottlenose-dolphin","tag-gannet","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-herring-gull","tag-kittiwake","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-puffin","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}