{"id":2977,"date":"2015-07-17T18:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2015-07-17T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T17:59:45","slug":"bait-ball-newts-north-sea-pelagic-03072015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/north-sea\/bait-ball-newts-north-sea-pelagic-03072015","title":{"rendered":"Bait ball; NEWT&#8217;s North Sea Pelagic 03\/07\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our second North Sea Pelagic of 2015 was accompanied by the usual cast of <em><strong>Fulmar,   Kittiwake,Gannet, Guillemot, Razorbill<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Puffin<\/strong><\/em>, and we sailed north a few miles from the shore.\u00a0 Passing Newbiggin, Bruce spotted a <em><strong>whale<\/strong><\/em> heading north, and I managed a brief sighting of it although it was travelling north rapidly and lost in the swell.\u00a0 We were just about to turn south again when there was a moment of pelagic magic \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Allan and Jimmy spotted a distant fin to the north, and there was a growing flock of <em><strong>Gannet, Kittiwake<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Fulmar<\/strong><\/em> in the area where the fin had been spotted.\u00a0 Then a <em><strong>Minke Whale<\/strong><\/em> surfaced amongst the birds \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Once I was sure that everyone had seen the <em><strong>whale<\/strong><\/em> I started a 360 degree scan &#8211; past experience suggests that good feeding often attracts multiple <em><strong>Minkes<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;and it was soon clear that there were two <em><strong>whales<\/strong><\/em> to the north of us and a third to the south \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2979\" 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