{"id":3303,"date":"2016-05-19T15:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:33:58","slug":"transition-otter-safari-140516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/transition-otter-safari-140516","title":{"rendered":"Transition; Otter Safari 14\/05\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering why it is that I prefer wildlife-watching in an evening rather than at daybreak, and I think I may have an idea…<\/p>\n

I collected James, Ruth, Stuart, Jane, Alex and Lawrence from Church Point and we set out for an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Against a chilly breeze, Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> were drying their wings and flying out to sea, Sedge Warblers<\/strong><\/em> were belting out their song from hidden positions in the reeds, Chiffchaff<\/strong><\/em> sang their name incessantly, Reed Buntings<\/strong><\/em> perched obligingly in view, Great Crested Grebe<\/strong><\/em> were diving, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Gadwall<\/strong><\/em> and Teal<\/strong><\/em> were dabbling and Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em> were shepherding their goslings<\/strong><\/em> along, looking alert as well they might when they’re at a site that’s produced regular sightings of Otter<\/strong><\/em> recently.\u00a0 Shelduck and Oystercatcher flew by and, as afternoon progressed into evening, we headed off to one of NEWT’s favourite spots.<\/p>\n

With the breeze subsiding it was turning into a sublime evening.\u00a0 A Dipper<\/strong><\/em> flew along just above the water, Moorhen were nervously tail-flicking as they stalked through the bankside vegetation, a drake Goosander<\/strong><\/em> drifted downstream, shortly before a pair of these big impressive sawbills<\/strong><\/em> flew by, a Grey Heron<\/strong><\/em> was unusually confiding, Swallow, Sand Martin<\/strong><\/em> and Swift<\/strong><\/em> hawked the insects that had managed to escape the gaping jaws of the fish that were rippling and leaping from the water, Rabbits<\/strong><\/em> were sitting on the bare earth at the edge of a field, close to the safe haven of the hedgerow, Brown Hares<\/strong><\/em> were running through crops that they were almost completely hidden by, occasionally pausing and sitting upright with just their ears and the top of the head visible, and then a harsh barking alerted us to the presence of a Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> in long grass nearby.<\/p>\n

The transition from our daytime world to the twilight world of some incredible wildlife is what makes it such a special time of the day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wondering why it is that I prefer wildlife-watching in an evening rather than at daybreak, and I think I may have an idea… I collected James, Ruth, Stuart, Jane, Alex and Lawrence from Church Point and we set out for an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Against a chilly […]<\/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":[57,268,372,257,170,378,488,283,190,171,198,837,210,284,127,66,218,227,189,217,233,169,182],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-brown-hare","tag-chiffchaff","tag-cormorant","tag-dipper","tag-gadwall","tag-goosander","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-mallard","tag-moorhen","tag-otter","tag-oystercatcher","tag-rabbit","tag-reed-bunting","tag-roe-deer","tag-sand-martin","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-shelduck","tag-swallow","tag-swift","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}