We’ve always said that NEWT has something for everyone, and occasionally we have very young participants…<\/p>\n
I met up with Kay, Spencer and Kai, and shortly after Matthew, Harriet and Florence (15 months old!) arrived and we set off along the coast for a few hours searching for Otters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> around Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 Herds of Mute Swan<\/strong><\/em>, Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> swimming serenely with their stripy-faced chicks, Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> engaging in disputes over the best fishing spots and clouds of Sand Martins<\/strong><\/em> and Swallows<\/strong><\/em> feasting on the bounteous harvest of flying insects in the warm, muggy evening air made the time seem to fly by and we found ourselves at dusk watching a stretch of river.\u00a0 Mallards<\/strong><\/em> flushed from the area of the riverbank where we’ve been seeing Otters<\/strong><\/em>, although the cause of the panic didn’t reveal itself, as Daubenton’s Bats<\/strong><\/em> flitted low over the water below and we listened to their echolocation on our bat detector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve always said that NEWT has something for everyone, and occasionally we have very young participants… I met up with Kay, Spencer and Kai, and shortly after Matthew, Harriet and Florence (15 months old!) arrived and we set off along the coast for a few hours searching for Otters around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,488,283,171,178,218,217],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-daubentons-bat","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-grey-heron","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-sand-martin","tag-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","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=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}