With the end of March approaching I was hoping for less breezy weather than we’ve been having recently.\u00a0 Not my lucky day though…<\/p>\n
I collected Melissa, Graham and Marjorie and we set off to spend the day exploring Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Hormones coursing through the veins of Red-breasted Merganser, Shelduck, Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Goldeneye, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and Mallard<\/strong><\/em> meant there was a lot of activity everywhere we went.\u00a0 Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> were doing their very best Otter<\/strong><\/em> impressions, Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> kept catching the eye as they dived beneath the waves and then, finally, the sign I’d been watching for.\u00a0 A pair of Mallards<\/strong><\/em> sitting in the edge of a reedbed suddenly sat very upright, staring intently into the same corner of the pool that had produced an Otter<\/strong><\/em> on our previous Otter Safari<\/a>.\u00a0 This time though the wind had lifted the water’s surface into a series of rolling waves that could have hidden the Loch Ness Monster itself, and the cause of the duck’s distress remained unseen by our eyes.<\/p>\n After a run of successful Otter Safaris, with some days where conditions really weren’t favourable, there was bound to be a day when they didn’t play ball…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the end of March approaching I was hoping for less breezy weather than we’ve been having recently.\u00a0 Not my lucky day though… I collected Melissa, Graham and Marjorie and we set off to spend the day exploring Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Hormones coursing through the veins of Red-breasted Merganser, Shelduck, Mute Swan, Canada […]<\/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":[560,372,172,170,168,360,171,178,837,210,188,358,169],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-otter","tag-canada-goose","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-otter","tag-oystercatcher","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-redshank","tag-teal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}