{"id":4183,"date":"2017-12-07T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2017-12-07T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T10:38:56","slug":"lurking-otter-safari-06-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/lurking-otter-safari-06-12-17","title":{"rendered":"Lurking; Otter Safari 06\/12\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

I collected Steph for her 4th day out with NEWT and we headed toward Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland for a day searching for Otters<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck<\/strong><\/em> and squealing Water Rails<\/strong><\/em> started the day, as three Mute Swans<\/strong><\/em> hissed and grunted while staring into a reedbed, although whatever was provoking their ire remained hidden, and Steph spotted a Bittern<\/strong><\/em> labouring into the wind.\u00a0 Lapwing<\/strong><\/em> and Curlew<\/strong><\/em> flocks flushed from nearby fields and were struggling in the air with a very stiff westerly breeze tossing them around.\u00a0 At our next site, Goldeneye and Little Grebes flushed in panic from one edge of the water and then turned to stare at where they’d come from…and again the cause of consternation remained hidden.\u00a0 Sparrowhawks<\/strong><\/em> flew low over the water causing momentary ruffling of feathers and a pair of Stonechat<\/strong><\/em> performed well in front of Steph’s camera.\u00a0 Noisy Long-tailed Tits<\/strong><\/em> were battered by the breeze whenever they ventured out from cover, Common Buzzards<\/strong><\/em> were sitting on fence posts and then Shoveler, Mallard, Gadwall, Wigeon, Teal, Tufted Duck<\/strong><\/em> and Coot<\/strong><\/em> made a hurried getaway from one reedbed…and the cause of their concern remained hidden yet again.<\/p>\n

One of those days, but a great day birding with Steph that was rounded off incredibly as we headed back towards the A1 when a Goshawk<\/strong><\/em> flew across the road and headed to a nearby plantation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I collected Steph for her 4th day out with NEWT and we headed toward Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland for a day searching for Otters… Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck and squealing Water Rails started the day, as three Mute Swans hissed and grunted while staring into a reedbed, although whatever was provoking their ire […]<\/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":[167,148,270,172,170,168,164,151,123,360,68,121,171,837,131,215,169,182,181],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-bittern","tag-common-buzzard","tag-coot","tag-curlew","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-goshawk","tag-great-northern-diver","tag-lapwing","tag-little-grebe","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-stonechat","tag-teal","tag-tufted-duck","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}