{"id":3813,"date":"2017-05-26T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2017-05-26T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:10:24","slug":"lazy-days-otter-safari-250517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/lazy-days-otter-safari-250517","title":{"rendered":"Lazy days; Otter Safari 25\/05\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m meticulous about checking the car before a day out with NEWT’s clients.\u00a0 Oil, air, water, screen wash, tyre pressures.. All checked and adjusted as necessary, at least one hour before I set off from the office.\u00a0 I went through that routine yesterday, before heading to Newbiggin to collect Carl and Joanne for an afternoon and evening around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All was fine…until I was less than 100m from our drive and the car suffered a puncture \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Luckily the fantastic Stakeford Tyre Services<\/a> is between our house and Newbiggin and the car was soon sporting a new tyre and we were underway…only to be hit from behind by another car just a couple of minutes after we’d left Newbiggin \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 I couldn’t see any damage to the back of our car so we headed on.\u00a0 Orange-tip<\/strong><\/em> and Green-veined White<\/strong><\/em> butterflies were busy in the warm sunshine, Mallard<\/strong><\/em> and Shelduck<\/strong><\/em> were shepherding ducklings, Sand Martin, House Martin, Swallow<\/strong><\/em> and Swift<\/strong><\/em> were harvesting a dense hatch of flying insects and Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Reed Warbler<\/strong><\/em> and Whitethroat<\/strong><\/em> were singing from hidden perches.<\/p>\n

Our picnic spot was beside a rock pool, with the warm sunshine, flat calm blue sea and lack of people on the beach giving it almost an ‘island feel’ as a dense flock of Herrring Gull<\/strong><\/em> and Gannet<\/strong><\/em> wheeled around offshore.\u00a0 Then all of the birds started circling with intent…and below them were 4 Bottlenose Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 After the dolphins<\/strong><\/em> moved around the headland and out of sight we continued on our way.\u00a0 It’s May but the evening light is still sublime, and the sunshine picked out Mute Swans<\/strong><\/em> and Grey Heron<\/strong><\/em> against the subtle hues of everything else around as the peace and quiet was disturbed briefly by an altercation between a Coot<\/strong><\/em> and a Moorhen<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Towards dusk a Roe Deer<\/strong><\/em> was in a distant field and as we headed back towards Newbiggin a Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> flew across the road ahead of us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m meticulous about checking the car before a day out with NEWT’s clients.\u00a0 Oil, air, water, screen wash, tyre pressures.. All checked and adjusted as necessary, at least one hour before I set off from the office.\u00a0 I went through that routine yesterday, before heading to Newbiggin to collect Carl and Joanne for an afternoon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,139],"tags":[97,461,330,185,342,283,143,232,128,171,769,267,66,218,227,189,217,233,234],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-barn-owl","tag-blackcap","tag-bottlenose-dolphin","tag-gannet","tag-green-veined-white","tag-grey-heron","tag-herring-gull","tag-house-martin","tag-kestrel","tag-mallard","tag-orange-tip","tag-reed-warbler","tag-roe-deer","tag-sand-martin","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-shelduck","tag-swallow","tag-swift","tag-whitethroat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","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=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}