{"id":3384,"date":"2016-07-05T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:07:30","slug":"trying-otter-safari-020716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/trying-otter-safari-020716","title":{"rendered":"Trying; Otter Safari 02\/07\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collecting Rhiannon and Phil from Alnwick, we headed to the coast for an afternoon and evening around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> were doing their best <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> impersonations as the breeze strengthened and the first rain shower of the afternoon caught us out on the river bank.\u00a0 <em><strong>Tufted Duck, Mallard<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Teal<\/strong><\/em> were all looking relaxed so we were confident there wasn&#8217;t an <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> around.\u00a0 <em><strong>Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> featured throughout the trip, bobbing to the surface before diving again in search of small fish, and a <em><strong>Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> put in a brief appearance before dropping behind a clump of rush.\u00a0 <em><strong>Swallows<\/strong><\/em> sitting on nests were remarkably tolerant of us and, as dusk approached, a <em><strong>Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> was feeding quietly in the open beside the water.\u00a0 <em><strong>Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em> suddenly stretched their necks up, staring at the water as flocks of <em><strong>Starlings<\/strong><\/em> swirled overhead in a pre-roost gathering.\u00a0 <em><strong>Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Mallard<\/strong><\/em> joined the worried staring and one area of the pool was bereft of birds.\u00a0 That&#8217;s always a good sign, but this time the cause of the birds&#8217; consternation didn&#8217;t reveal itself; presumably staying tucked away in the relative warmth and comfort of the reedbeds as a breeze that would be more fitting for mid-winter than mid-summer whipped the water into a choppy mess.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, no matter how hard you try&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collecting Rhiannon and Phil from Alnwick, we headed to the coast for an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland&#8230; Cormorants were doing their best Otter impersonations as the breeze strengthened and the first rain shower of the afternoon caught us out on the river bank.\u00a0 Tufted Duck, Mallard and Teal were all [&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":[560,372,488,190,123,243,360,171,66,161,217,182],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-canada-goose","tag-cormorant","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-roe-deer","tag-starling","tag-swallow","tag-tufted-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","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=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}