{"id":4205,"date":"2018-01-10T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2018-01-10T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:39:43","slug":"chilly-otter-mini-safari-09-01-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/chilly-otter-mini-safari-09-01-17","title":{"rendered":"Chilly; Otter mini-Safari 09\/01\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and breezy has been a recurring theme over the last couple of months, and when I arrived at Church Point to collect Andrea and Ian ahead of a few hours around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Druridge Bay<\/a> and southeast Northumberland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/welcome\/tour\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">searching for Otters<\/a> a stiff breeze had whipped the sea into a frothy white mass and was biting at all of the layers I&#8217;d donned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d got two sites in mind for the afternoon and the first one had a very obvious sign of the presence of <em><strong>Otters<\/strong><\/em>; <em><strong>Goldeneye, Mallard, Coot<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> were everywhere &#8211; except in the lee of the reedbed that would have sheltered them from the wind.\u00a0 <em><strong>Mute Swans<\/strong><\/em> were staring at the reeds, but whatever was in there remained hidden as the wind whistled around the reeds and us.\u00a0 <em><strong>Lapwings<\/strong><\/em> had flushed and were being tossed on the breeze like leaves as we headed to our second site.\u00a0<em><strong> Coot, Canada Goose, Mallard, Wigeon, Teal, Goldeneye<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Gadwall<\/strong><\/em> were all feeding or roosting as the biting wind dictated that most wildlife just kept their heads down.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be too long until the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Our clients have a wide range of wildlife (and other) interests, but yesterday was the first time that we&#8217;ve ever had anyone on one of our trips who has an obsession with sloths.\u00a0 So today I&#8217;m watching &#8216;Meet the Sloths&#8217; on YouTube \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and breezy has been a recurring theme over the last couple of months, and when I arrived at Church Point to collect Andrea and Ian ahead of a few hours around Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland searching for Otters a stiff breeze had whipped the sea into a frothy white mass and was biting [&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":[560,270,170,168,123,360,171,178,169,181],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-canada-goose","tag-coot","tag-gadwall","tag-goldeneye","tag-lapwing","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-mute-swan","tag-teal","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205","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=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}