{"id":3291,"date":"2016-05-13T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:02:22","slug":"sounds-like-an-80s-video-game-otter-safari-070516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/sounds-like-an-80s-video-game-otter-safari-070516","title":{"rendered":"Sounds like an 80&#8217;s video game; Otter Safari 07\/05\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked some strange things &#8211; not usually by our clients, but members of the public who we&#8217;ve bumped in to.\u00a0 &#8220;There&#8217;s a bird and we&#8217;re not sure what it is.\u00a0 It sounds like an 80&#8217;s video game&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected Carolyn and Pat from Warkworth and we headed out for an afternoon and evening around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 The first thing we noticed was a stiff breeze, straight from the north and with an icy bite that effortlessly knifed it&#8217;s way through as many layers as you tried to don against it.\u00a0 <em><strong>Tufted Ducks<\/strong><\/em> watched one area of reeds in a state of high alertness, as <em><strong>Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Great Crested Grebe<\/strong><\/em> all radiated elegance.\u00a0 <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> battled against the wind as they headed out to sea and <em><strong>Mute Swan, Mallard, Gadwall, Wigeon<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Teal<\/strong><\/em> dabbled in the choppy water.\u00a0 <em><strong>Oystercatcher<\/strong><\/em> were feeding and engaging in noisy disputes, and as we sat and had our picnic, <em><strong>Fulmars<\/strong><\/em> soared effortlessly along the cliff edge as <em><strong>Gannets<\/strong><\/em> speared into the breeze heading north.<\/p>\n<p>As dusk approached and the wind continued its relentless assault, a noticeable hatch of flying insects attracted the attentions of <em><strong>Pipistrelles<\/strong><\/em> which passed just over our heads.<\/p>\n<p>As for the &#8220;80&#8217;s video game&#8221;&#8230;would anyone like to take a guess at that one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked some strange things &#8211; not usually by our clients, but members of the public who we&#8217;ve bumped in to.\u00a0 &#8220;There&#8217;s a bird and we&#8217;re not sure what it is.\u00a0 It sounds like an 80&#8217;s video game&#8221;&#8230; I collected Carolyn and Pat from Warkworth and we headed out for an afternoon and evening [&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":[560,372,378,488,190,123,171,178,210,292,188,358,169,181],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-canada-goose","tag-cormorant","tag-goosander","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-oystercatcher","tag-pipistrelle","tag-red-breasted-merganser","tag-redshank","tag-teal","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","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=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}