Tuesday’s North Pennines Prestige tour was a complete contrast to Wednesday’s Otter Safari.\u00a0 The weather was much nicer than on Tuesday as I collected Mark and Clare from Alnwick.\u00a0 Our Otter Safaris, although\u00a0structured to maximise\u00a0our clients’ chances of getting\u00a0good views of Otters, always produce lots of other wildlife as well.\u00a0 This one was no exception, with excellent views of Red Squirrel, Roe Deer, Brown Hare and Little Owl, amongst all of the usual suspects.\u00a0 Unusually, we were struggling to find an otter, so I had one last throw of the dice…however, the nice weather had brought out lots of holidaymakers and they appeared to be concentrated around that last chance \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Clare, after watching a ‘sleek, shiny lump’ hidden in a small channel in the reeds, that she decided couldn’t be an otter, was concerned that the lump had now vanished!\u00a0 Then, the behaviour we’d been watching for;\u00a0 Teal and Mallard began to leave the safety of the reeds and head out into the open water.\u00a0 More importantly, they were doing this in sequence along the edge of the pool.\u00a0 Sure enough, there was the sleek, dark shape of an otter working it’s way through the reedbed \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Not the best views, but Mark did see it lift it’s head, just before a group of holidaymakers appeared in front of the hide!\u00a0 One last view as it bounded along a furrow in the field behind the pool, and then the ducks all settled back down.\u00a0 They really are an excellent indicator; they know when a predator is close, and they know when it’s far enough away to stop worrying.\u00a0 The conclusion to two of the most enjoyable days we’ve had with clients since our first safari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tuesday’s North Pennines Prestige tour was a complete contrast to Wednesday’s Otter Safari.\u00a0 The weather was much nicer than on Tuesday as I collected Mark and Clare from Alnwick.\u00a0 Our Otter Safaris, although\u00a0structured to maximise\u00a0our clients’ chances of getting\u00a0good views of Otters, always produce lots of other wildlife as well.\u00a0 This one was no exception, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,139],"tags":[57,72,171,837,833,66,169],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otter","category-red-squirrel","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-brown-hare","tag-little-owl","tag-mallard","tag-otter","tag-red-squirrel","tag-roe-deer","tag-teal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}