{"id":4005,"date":"2017-08-11T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2017-08-23T17:28:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:28:46","slug":"evening-activity-otter-mini-safari-100817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/evening-activity-otter-mini-safari-100817","title":{"rendered":"Evening activity; Otter mini-Safari 10\/08\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

I arrived at Church Point to collect Andy, Teresa and Katharine, and Richard, Belinda and Julia, for an evening around Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland searching for Otters<\/a>, under a glorious blue sky with just a gentle breeze.\u00a0 Almost like the summer had arrived…<\/p>\n

Grey Herons<\/strong><\/em> were stalking patiently through the shallows in the shadow of the reed edges and Mute<\/strong> Swans, Greylag Geese, Mallards, Tufted Duck, Gadwall<\/strong><\/em>, Teal<\/strong><\/em> and Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em>, with a chick that’s probably too big to be hitching a ride on it’s parents’ back, were all getting on with life, and way too relaxed for there to be an Otter<\/strong><\/em> about, and then Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> and Starling<\/strong><\/em> flushed in a sudden panic.\u00a0 We couldn’t see what had caused the alarm though and, as everything settled back down we headed on.<\/p>\n

At our next stop we had a long chat with a fisherman, who told us where he’d seen an Otter<\/strong><\/em> the previous night…which just happened to be where we were heading for dusk.\u00a0 A small group of Canada Geese<\/strong><\/em> were clearly on high alert then, as a Little Egret<\/strong><\/em> provided a touch of luminosity in the deepening gloom of dusk, Tawny Owls<\/strong><\/em> called from the trees on both sides of the river, skein after skein after skein of Canada Geese<\/strong><\/em> flew noisily overhead, pipistrelles<\/strong><\/em> around trees and buildings were picked up by Julia’s bat detector and the majestic Summer Triangle<\/strong><\/em> of Vega<\/strong><\/em>, Altair<\/strong><\/em> and Deneb<\/strong><\/em> appeared against the night sky overhead…the evening finished as Otters 1 NEWT 0.\u00a0 Fantastic ottery habitat, geese clearly agitated and a sighting the previous evening…but you just can’t be certain what will turn up.\u00a0 That’s why every day spent searching for any of our local wildlife is just so much fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I arrived at Church Point to collect Andy, Teresa and Katharine, and Richard, Belinda and Julia, for an evening around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland searching for Otters, under a glorious blue sky with just a gentle breeze.\u00a0 Almost like the summer had arrived… Grey Herons were stalking patiently through the shallows in the shadow […]<\/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":[813,560,911,170,488,190,123,243,171,178,837,292,131,161,811,78,169,182,800],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-altair","tag-canada-goose","tag-deneb","tag-gadwall","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-little-egret","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-otter","tag-pipistrelle","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-starling","tag-summer-triangle","tag-tawny-owl","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","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=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}