{"id":2921,"date":"2015-06-10T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2015-06-12T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:22:45","slug":"showstopper-otter-safari-04062015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/showstopper-otter-safari-04062015","title":{"rendered":"Showstopper; Otter Safari 04\/06\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, there&#8217;ll be an experience during a trip with clients that is simply jaw-dropping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at Church Point in summary weather and set off with six clients to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and south east Northumberland in search of <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <em><strong>Avocets<\/strong><\/em> with eggs and chicks were delicately, elegantly beautiful, a <em><strong>Whimbrel<\/strong><\/em> flew around, calling noisily, <em><strong>Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> with chicks rivalled the <em><strong>Avocets<\/strong><\/em> in elegance, a <em><strong>Cuckoo<\/strong><\/em> made its way along a fence line, the rhythmic song of <em><strong>Reed Warbler<\/strong><\/em> provided an aural backdrop for much of the afternoon and a <em><strong>Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> appeared from a reedbed at dusk before clearing a fence and bounding away.<\/p>\n<p>The jaw-dropping moment came, not with an <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em>, but with another predator.\u00a0 Usually when we encounter a <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> you get a brief view before it heads off elsewhere to hunt.\u00a0 This time though we had a prolonged view with the ghostly white bird no more than 20m away from us at times as it quartered rough grassland, hovering in beautiful golden light, a translucent-winged, silent angel of death scouring the ground below for small rodents to dispatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, there&#8217;ll be an experience during a trip with clients that is simply jaw-dropping&#8230; I arrived at Church Point in summary weather and set off with six clients to explore Druridge Bay and south east Northumberland in search of Otters.\u00a0 Avocets with eggs and chicks were delicately, elegantly beautiful, a Whimbrel flew around, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,139],"tags":[40,97,264,488,837,267,66,231],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-avocet","tag-barn-owl","tag-cuckoo","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-otter","tag-reed-warbler","tag-roe-deer","tag-whimbrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}