{"id":4187,"date":"2017-12-31T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T09:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2017-12-31T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T09:43:42","slug":"winter-otter-mini-safari-28-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/winter-otter-mini-safari-28-12-17","title":{"rendered":"Winter; Otter mini-Safari 28\/12\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Stephen from Church Point and we set out for an afternoon around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One thing that has stood out in the last few weeks is the great number of <em><strong>Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> that are wintering here, and this trip was no exception.\u00a0 <em><strong>Cormorants<\/strong><\/em> were diving alongside them in pursuit of small fish.\u00a0 A <em><strong>Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> quartered over reedbeds, harassed by <em><strong>corvids<\/strong><\/em> and a <em><strong>Sparrowhawk<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Teal, Wigeon, Mallard<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Gadwall<\/strong><\/em> were all dabbling in shallow water as <em><strong>Starlings<\/strong><\/em> arrived to roost.\u00a0 39 <em><strong>Whooper Swans<\/strong><\/em> arriving together were an impressive sight, then they drifted close to a reedbed before beating a hasty retreat&#8230;what was lurking in the shadows of the reeds as the strengthening and biting wind drove us back to the car and towards Newbiggin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collected Stephen from Church Point and we set out for an afternoon around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland&#8230; One thing that has stood out in the last few weeks is the great number of Goldeneye and Little Grebe that are wintering here, and this trip was no exception.\u00a0 Cormorants were diving alongside them in [&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":[97,372,170,168,360,68,171,131,161,169,130,181],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-barn-owl","tag-cormorant","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-little-grebe","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-mallard","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-starling","tag-teal","tag-whooper-swan","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}