{"id":2743,"date":"2015-02-10T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T08:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T08:28:41","slug":"plan-a-plan-b-otter-safari-07022015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/plan-a-plan-b-otter-safari-07022015","title":{"rendered":"Plan A, Plan B; Otter Safari 07\/02\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

A question I’ve been asked a few times recently is “What if we hadn’t seen an Otter<\/strong><\/em> there?”.\u00a0 The answer, of course, is that we have a Plan B (and Plan C and Plan D as well, just in case…).<\/p>\n

I collected Bing and Martin and we headed out towards the coast for their bespoke Otter Safari<\/a>.\u00a0 Just over an hour later, and Plan A wasn’t looking good; there were Cormorants, Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> and Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> as far as the eye could see, but no sign of our target species…however, good things come to those who wait, and when Bing mentioned that she’d just seen something diving I looked across in the same direction, and up popped an Otter<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Here’s an image of an Otter<\/strong><\/em> at ‘Plan A’ in mid-January.<\/p>\n

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

We watched it for a few minutes before it slipped out of sight, and I thought it would be sensible to put Plan B into action.\u00a0 First though, it was time for lunch.\u00a0 We paid a visit to probably the most endearing star of our recent days out<\/p>\n

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

and then we sat on a cliff top as Turnstone, Sanderling, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Bar-tailed Godwit<\/strong><\/em> and Curlew<\/strong><\/em> scurried, stalked, prodded and probed their way along the shoreline below us.\u00a0 Plan B proved to be much more successful, as we watched an Otter<\/strong><\/em> as it startled Redshank, Curlew, Mallards, Canada Geese<\/strong><\/em> and Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We lost track of it for a few minutes, then suddenly it was right in front of us, getting out of the water briefly, before heading off into the reflection of the sun, and creating the typical ‘ring of bright water’, each time it surfaced \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 A Stoat<\/strong><\/em> provided some entertainment, as they always do – this one was photographed on New Year’s Day, when we were checking Plans A, B, C and D \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Stoat,Mustela<\/a><\/p>\n

Another species that we’ve been watching regularly over the last few weeks provided a vivid splash of colour in the fading light of the afternoon,<\/p>\n

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

and then it was time to return Bing and Martin to their hotel, with the goal of seeing an Otter<\/strong><\/em> in the wild reached via Plan A and Plan B \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 If you’d like to search for Otters<\/strong><\/em> in the wild, or any of Northumberland’s other stunning wildlife, then give us a call on 01670 827465 – wildlife is unpredictable, but the one thing we can guarantee is that we’ll always do everything we can to make sure you’re in the right place at the right time!<\/p>\n

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A question I’ve been asked a few times recently is “What if we hadn’t seen an Otter there?”.\u00a0 The answer, of course, is that we have a Plan B (and Plan C and Plan D as well, just in case…). I collected Bing and Martin and we headed out towards the coast for their bespoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,21],"tags":[147,560,372,172,168,400,190,120,360,72,171,837,210,358,224,80,183,359],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-otter","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-canada-goose","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-goldeneye","tag-grey-plover","tag-greylag-goose","tag-kingfisher","tag-little-grebe","tag-little-owl","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-oystercatcher","tag-redshank","tag-ringed-plover","tag-sanderling","tag-stoat","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}