{"id":3434,"date":"2016-07-25T08:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:19:44","slug":"brief-encounter-newts-north-sea-pelagic-200716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/north-sea\/brief-encounter-newts-north-sea-pelagic-200716","title":{"rendered":"Brief encounter; NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 20\/07\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a couple of cancelled sailings, with weather conditions that we felt would just be uncomfortable for everyone, we set sail on our 6th 4hr pelagic this year<\/a> on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

As we headed north, small rafts of Puffin<\/strong><\/em> were seen regularly, Razorbill, Guillemot, Kittiwake, Fulmar<\/strong><\/em> and Gannet <\/strong><\/em>provided a supporting cast and with a boat full of clients all scanning the sea, in good visibility, I was feeling confident…<\/p>\n

The call from Tim “dolphins!” had everyone suddenly very animated…and there they were; 4 White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em>, including a very small calf \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 One of the adults came across us close to the bow, and then they quietly slipped away from view after five minutes or so.\u00a0 Encounters with dolphins are always exciting, but your truly learnt a very painful lesson; even when you’ve photographed hundreds of dolphins<\/strong><\/em> and seabirds<\/strong><\/em> from moving boats, in everything from flat calm with glorious light, through to challenging swell and heavily overcast…it counts for nothing if you’ve managed to leave the house without any memory cards in your camera \ud83d\ude41 After the dolphin encounter, one of our clients was kind enough to lend me a memory card so I’ve got lots of images from the second half of the evening!<\/p>\n

\"Black-legged<\/p>\n

\"Atlantic<\/p>\n

\"Atlantic<\/p>\n

\"Atlantic<\/p>\n

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After a couple of cancelled sailings, with weather conditions that we felt would just be uncomfortable for everyone, we set sail on our 6th 4hr pelagic this year on Wednesday evening. As we headed north, small rafts of Puffin were seen regularly, Razorbill, Guillemot, Kittiwake, Fulmar and Gannet provided a supporting cast and with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[185,186,301,225,226,841],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-sea","tag-gannet","tag-guillemot","tag-kittiwake","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill","tag-white-beaked-dolphin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","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=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}