{"id":3199,"date":"2015-12-18T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2015-12-18T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T09:35:49","slug":"captivating-otter-mini-safari-16122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/captivating-otter-mini-safari-16122015","title":{"rendered":"Captivating; Otter mini-Safari 16\/12\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday’s trip was an Otter mini-Safari<\/a>, concentrating on Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland, and I collected Gillian, Stevie, Evelyn and Davy from Church Point, in weather that was quite a contrast to Tuesday’s gloom…<\/p>\n

We haven’t had an Otter Safari since late November, and we’d been on a long run of successful trips, so I’d got my fingers crossed that we’d find Otters<\/strong><\/em> at at least one of our regular sites.\u00a0 Incredibly, we’d not even reached the water’s edge when we spotted the first Otter<\/strong><\/em> cub of the afternoon \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Within a few minutes we were watching an adult female and two cubs, and for nearly two hours they provided fantastic entertainment; feeding, playing, play-fighting, calling to each other, clambering into the holt for a rest.\u00a0 After the female ate a small fish on a rock right in front of us, she caught a larger fish and swam towards the holt and both cubs came rushing out of the holt and met her before she’d reached the water’s edge as Little Egrets<\/strong><\/em> and Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> continued plundering the supply of small fish.\u00a0 We finished at dusk with an impressive roost of Lapwing, Dunlin, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and Wigeon<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It would probably be a struggle to watch a 3hr wildlife documentary, but 3hrs of real wildlife just getting on with life in front of you seems to fly by \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday’s trip was an Otter mini-Safari, concentrating on Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland, and I collected Gillian, Stevie, Evelyn and Davy from Church Point, in weather that was quite a contrast to Tuesday’s gloom… We haven’t had an Otter Safari since late November, and we’d been on a long run of successful trips, so I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[172,288,168,488,123,243,360,837,210,169,181],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-goldeneye","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-otter","tag-oystercatcher","tag-teal","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}