{"id":4260,"date":"2018-03-28T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2018-03-28T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:03:33","slug":"shadow-hunter-otter-mini-safari-27-03-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/shadow-hunter-otter-mini-safari-27-03-18","title":{"rendered":"Shadow hunter; Otter mini-Safari 27\/03\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rain that started soon after I collected Marilyn, Pam, John and Jen & Anne and Bridget from Church Point had passed over and there was a touch of azure beyond the clouds overhead…<\/p>\n

An obliging Little Owl<\/strong><\/em> had given us a stare from it’s perch in a bare tree as we head up the Druridge Bay<\/a> coast in search of Otters<\/a>.\u00a0 Tufted Duck, Goldeneye, Cormorant<\/strong><\/em> and Little Grebe<\/strong><\/em> were diving, Gadwall, Mallard<\/strong><\/em> and Teal<\/strong><\/em> were dabbling, Coot<\/strong><\/em> were doing a bit of both and a pair of Great Crested Grebes<\/strong><\/em> had a half-hearted attempt at a courtship dance as Water Rails<\/strong><\/em> squealed from deep in the reeds and a Brown Hare<\/strong><\/em> loped across a nearby field.<\/p>\n

As the sun sank towards the western horizon Jen spotted our quarry.\u00a0 Twisting, turning and surfacing to crunch whatever it had just caught the Otter<\/strong><\/em> headed back to it’s holt after 10 minutes.\u00a0 Then it was back out, coming closer to us and having a real tussle with a large fish which we occasionally caught sight of as it drifted near the surface under the onslaught from the Otter<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 As the wind strengthened and temperature dropped the sinuous shape of the Otter<\/strong><\/em> drifted back into the shadows under a waxing gibbous Moon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The Otter<\/strong><\/em> is probably this one that we were watching back in January.<\/p>\n

\"Eurasian<\/p>\n

We’ve got Otter Safaris<\/a> up to the end of May and again from early September, but we can organise them to order from June-August, so get in touch to book your tour with us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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