Heading to Bamburgh to collect Michelle and Pam, I was feeling optimistic that the mist was going to lift and we’d have good weather…<\/p>\n
As it turned out, the mist came and went throughout the day – but the wildlife was the usual high quality that the Northumberland coast delivers throughout the year.\u00a0 A singing Dipper<\/strong><\/em> broke off from proclaiming his territory in order to dive into the river as another Dipper<\/strong><\/em> bobbed up and down on a nearby rock.\u00a0 Otter<\/strong><\/em> site ‘B’ looked promising as we arrived – Little Grebe, Gadwall, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> were all clustered on one edge of the water so I scanned the large area of bird-free open water…and there was an Otter<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 After entertaining us for 45 minutes it vanished into the reeds and we continued along the coast.\u00a0 Whooper Swans<\/strong><\/em> called in the mist and Gannets<\/strong><\/em> were plunging into the sea as we made our way to Site ‘A’…where an Otter<\/strong><\/em> cub was sitting on a rock \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It was soon in the water feeding within 30m of us, as Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em> and a Kingfisher<\/strong><\/em> added a surreal luminance to the misty afternoon, then it seemed to realise it’s mum and sibling weren’t around and decided to go in search of them.\u00a0 Initially that involved getting out of the water and persistently calling – while running straight towards us!\u00a0 Soon it was back in the water and we followed it’s progress by the bright water of it’s wake as it disappeared into the mist and murk of the late afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heading to Bamburgh to collect Michelle and Pam, I was feeling optimistic that the mist was going to lift and we’d have good weather… As it turned out, the mist came and went throughout the day – but the wildlife was the usual high quality that the Northumberland coast delivers throughout the year.\u00a0 A singing […]<\/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],"tags":[257,170,120,243,360,171,837,169,182,130,181],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-otter","tag-dipper","tag-gadwall","tag-kingfisher","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-whooper-swan","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}