{"id":3227,"date":"2016-02-29T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2016-02-29T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:18:49","slug":"captivating-bespoke-otter-safari-15022016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/captivating-bespoke-otter-safari-15022016","title":{"rendered":"Captivating; Bespoke Otter Safari 15\/02\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we&#8217;re out in the Northumberland countryside there&#8217;s always plenty of wildlife to see, but sometimes the star of the show is just so captivating that we could watch it all day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected Pat and Jenny from Amble, for the first of their two days out with NEWT,\u00a0 and we headed down the coast for a day exploring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland in search of <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <em><strong>Wigeon, Teal, Gadwall, Mallard, Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Tufted Duck <\/strong><\/em>were all evident at our first site and, along with the wary <em><strong>Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em> nearby, were studiously avoiding one area of the pond.\u00a0 There was no sign of any obvious source of concern for the assembled <em><strong>wildfowl<\/strong><\/em> though so, as they began dispersing across all of the water, we headed on.\u00a0 Our second site looked initially unpromising too, as somebody already there told us that they hadn&#8217;t seen an <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> and neither had another observer who&#8217;d been there for four hours.\u00a0 I was still confident though &#8211; it&#8217;s a site I&#8217;ve watched regularly for eight years, so I&#8217;ve got a good idea of the what and when of <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> activity there&#8230;and after 5 minutes I spotted an <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> cub as it crept furtively along the water&#8217;s edge \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 For nearly two hours we watched as it fed non-stop, making it&#8217;s way around a circular feeding route a couple of times.\u00a0 <em><strong>Redshank, Curlew<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> got out of the way as the hungry mustelid approached them.\u00a0 Eventually it disappeared from view and we moved on to enjoy the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we&#8217;re out in the Northumberland countryside there&#8217;s always plenty of wildlife to see, but sometimes the star of the show is just so captivating that we could watch it all day&#8230; I collected Pat and Jenny from Amble, for the first of their two days out with NEWT,\u00a0 and we headed down the coast [&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],"tags":[172,170,168,190,360,171,837,358,169,182,181],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-greylag-goose","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-redshank","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}