{"id":3163,"date":"2015-11-27T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:18:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:18:33","slug":"five-star-otter-watching-otter-safari-25112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/five-star-otter-watching-otter-safari-25112015","title":{"rendered":"Five star Otter watching; Otter Safari 25\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collected Eve from The Swan<\/a> and we headed towards the coast for a day searching for Otters<\/strong><\/em> around Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 I’d seen two Otter<\/strong><\/em> cubs on Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon, while I was out searching for berries to make Sea Buckthorn vodka, so I’d already got the plan for the afternoon firmly sorted…<\/p>\n

Having the morning to play with, we headed off in the direction of another recent Otter<\/strong><\/em> sighting.\u00a0 Hardly any birds on the water, and ducks, geese and swans all along the bank, is a promising sign and, soon after a Common Buzzard<\/strong><\/em> glided past us on the cool breeze, I spotted the tell-tale dark shape rolling and diving.\u00a0 The Otter<\/strong><\/em> soon resurfaced, alongside a second, and then a third \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We watched them for 45mins, before they did the very typical Otter<\/strong><\/em> trick of diving and then vanishing.\u00a0 Ten minutes later and the birds were all back on the water, apparently unconcerned, so we knew it was time to move on.\u00a0 As we’re approaching the winter, the ducks are in fantastic condition; Wigeon, Teal, Goldeneye, Mallard, Gadwall<\/strong><\/em> and Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> are all stunning birds once they’re out of eclipse plumage and a real wildfowl highlight was four Bean Geese<\/strong><\/em> flying northeast.<\/p>\n

As the afternoon turned dull and dark, with a spectacular sky at sunset, Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em> were stalking through the shallows, a Kingfisher<\/strong><\/em> gave tantalisingly brief views and there were the two Otter<\/strong><\/em> cubs \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Playing and feeding around a semi-submerged tree close to the water’s edge we had another 45 mins of Otter<\/strong><\/em> action before they slipped out of sight and into the darkness of the late afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I collected Eve from The Swan and we headed towards the coast for a day searching for Otters around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 I’d seen two Otter cubs on Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon, while I was out searching for berries to make Sea Buckthorn vodka, so I’d already got the plan for the […]<\/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":[743,148,170,168,120,243,171,837,169,182,181],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-otter","tag-bean-goose","tag-common-buzzard","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-kingfisher","tag-little-egret","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","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=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}