{"id":2811,"date":"2015-04-07T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T06:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2015-04-07T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T06:39:18","slug":"life-the-universe-and-everything-otter-safari-04042015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/life-the-universe-and-everything-otter-safari-04042015","title":{"rendered":"Life, the universe and everything; Otter Safari 04\/04\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I arrived at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theswanchoppington.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Swan<\/a> to collect Alan, Sarah and Sam it was looking like a glorious spring day.\u00a0 The plan for the day was to search all of our regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=13\" target=\"_blank\">Otter sites<\/a> around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 <em><strong>Chiffchaff, Chaffinch<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Robin<\/strong><\/em> were all singing, <em><strong>Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> were stalking through the shallows (almost a permanent feature of our coastal trips now), <em><strong>Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> caused momentary panic as they slipped beneath the water&#8217;s surface, <em><strong>Stonechats<\/strong><\/em> tail-flicked atop coastal bushes and <em><strong>Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> were song-flighting.\u00a0 Towards the end of the day we came across a species that is always attention-grabbing, as a <em><strong>Kingfisher<\/strong><\/em> flew downstream towards us before crossing the river and perching in a low bush, sitting obligingly as we trained our &#8216;scopes on it.<\/p>\n<p>As we travelled between sites, Sam&#8217;s unquenchable thirst for knowledge generated a keenly contested quiz.\u00a0 Not on wildlife though, this was a quiz on the solar system and astronomy!\u00a0 Now, I thought my knowledge of the universe was good, but thanks to an enthusiastic 7 year old, I finished the day with it expanded \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I arrived at The Swan to collect Alan, Sarah and Sam it was looking like a glorious spring day.\u00a0 The plan for the day was to search all of our regular Otter sites around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Chiffchaff, Chaffinch and Robin were all singing, Little Egret were stalking through the shallows (almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,139],"tags":[102,268,372,168,120,243,207,837,116,215],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-otter","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-chaffinch","tag-chiffchaff","tag-cormorant","tag-goldeneye","tag-kingfisher","tag-little-egret","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-otter","tag-robin","tag-stonechat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}