{"id":3528,"date":"2016-08-05T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T10:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2016-08-05T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T10:41:37","slug":"monochrome-otter-safari-020816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/monochrome-otter-safari-020816","title":{"rendered":"Monochrome; Otter Safari 02\/08\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Julie and Andrew and headed down the coast for an afternoon and evening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tour\/1\" target=\"_blank\">searching for <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em><\/a> around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and Southeast Northumberland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A tree filled with roosting <em><strong>Little Egrets, Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> was an odd sight, as more <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> did their very best <em><strong>Otter<\/strong><\/em> impersonations up and down the river.\u00a0 <em><strong>Oystercatcher, Redshank<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Curlew<\/strong><\/em> probed the muddy margins as <em><strong>Sand Martins, House Martins<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Swallows<\/strong><\/em> filled the air overhead.\u00a0 As we approach dusk it&#8217;s always an exciting time on our tours; things start stirring, birds arrive to roost and you never know just what&#8217;s going to appear out of the gloom.\u00a0 Thick cloud cover and mist reduced the scene to monochrome as <em><strong>Starlings<\/strong><\/em> murmurated nearby, <em><strong>Common Gulls<\/strong><\/em> flew through in tight flocks on their way to roost and <em><strong>Great Crested Grebe<\/strong><\/em> chicks hitched a ride on their parent&#8217;s backs as the rain started to fall.\u00a0 <em><strong>Canada<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Greylag Geese<\/strong><\/em> erupted from the water&#8217;s surface with a cacophony of noise and a female <em><strong>Marsh Harrier<\/strong><\/em> drifted over the reeds in near darkness.\u00a0 Fade to black&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Julie and Andrew and headed down the coast for an afternoon and evening searching for Otters around Druridge Bay and Southeast Northumberland&#8230; A tree filled with roosting Little Egrets, Grey Herons and Cormorants was an odd sight, as more Cormorants did their very best Otter impersonations up and down the river.\u00a0 Oystercatcher, Redshank [&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":[560,277,372,172,488,283,190,232,675,397,837,210,358,218,161,217],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-canada-goose","tag-common-gull","tag-cormorant","tag-curlew","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-house-martin","tag-litte-egret","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-otter","tag-oystercatcher","tag-redshank","tag-sand-martin","tag-starling","tag-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","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=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}