{"id":3895,"date":"2017-07-10T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2017-07-10T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:24:35","slug":"bait-balls-newts-north-sea-pelagic-070717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/north-sea\/bait-balls-newts-north-sea-pelagic-070717","title":{"rendered":"Bait balls; NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 07\/07\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our second 4hr evening pelagic last week sailed in calmer seas than on Wednesday and we headed north from the Tyne.\u00a0 Searching for flocks of birds above bait balls of tiny fish we encountered Kittiwake, Guillemot, Razorbill, Fulmar<\/strong><\/em> and Gannet<\/strong><\/em>, including a flock that were plunge-diving just off Blyth.\u00a0 ‘Crazy unexpected wildlife’ award for the evening went to a Hummingbird Hawk-moth<\/strong><\/em> that joined us off Blyth and eventually went to roost in the speaker of the boat’s tannoy system \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We finished the evening with a spectacular sunset as we passed St Mary’s Island and flocks of Common Scoter<\/strong><\/em> heading north.<\/p>\n

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Our 4hr evening sailings are almost all sold out but there are a few places remaining, and we\u2019ve still got availability on our 10hr \u2018Northumberland Ultimate Pelagic\u2019<\/a> sailings in August and September.\u00a0 Give us a call on 01670 827465 for more information or to reserve your place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our second 4hr evening pelagic last week sailed in calmer seas than on Wednesday and we headed north from the Tyne.\u00a0 Searching for flocks of birds above bait balls of tiny fish we encountered Kittiwake, Guillemot, Razorbill, Fulmar and Gannet, including a flock that were plunge-diving just off Blyth.\u00a0 ‘Crazy unexpected wildlife’ award for the […]<\/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":[67,122,185,186,907,301,225,226],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-sea","tag-common-scoter","tag-fulmar","tag-gannet","tag-guillemot","tag-hummingbird-hawk-moth","tag-kittiwake","tag-puffin","tag-razorbill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}