{"id":3849,"date":"2017-06-19T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T16:14:05","slug":"owling-bespoke-otter-safari-140617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/owling-bespoke-otter-safari-140617","title":{"rendered":"Owling; Bespoke Otter Safari 14\/06\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are days when our quarry evades us, but even then there&#8217;s usually something good that comes along anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I collected Marg and Rob from Alnwick and we headed southeast towards Druridge Bay for an afternoon and evening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tour\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">searching our favourite spots for <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Roebuck<\/strong><\/em> and a <em><strong>Roe doe<\/strong><\/em> were peering at us from deep grass and <em><strong>Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> were elegantly serene and just quite stunning.\u00a0 <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> were resting or drying off after fishing, wings outstretched like heraldic black dragons.\u00a0 A mini-murmuration of <em><strong>Starlings<\/strong><\/em> was a long way from the huge flocks we&#8217;ll be watching by the end of the year, but impressive nonetheless.\u00a0 As dusk approached we found ourselves watching a hunting <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> as it passed by on silent wings before plunging into the grass in search of a hapless rodent as <em><strong>Cuckoos<\/strong><\/em> were pursued by angry <em><strong>Meadow Pipits<\/strong><\/em> from bush to bush along the dunes and the light faded, as it always does, to unmanageable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are days when our quarry evades us, but even then there&#8217;s usually something good that comes along anyway&#8230; I collected Marg and Rob from Alnwick and we headed southeast towards Druridge Bay for an afternoon and evening searching our favourite spots for Otters.\u00a0 A Roebuck and a Roe doe were peering at us from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,139],"tags":[97,381,372,488,207,66],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-barn-owl","tag-common-cuckoo","tag-cormorant","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-meadow-pipit","tag-roe-deer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","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=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3851,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}