{"id":4788,"date":"2019-05-31T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:28:33","slug":"a-punny-evening-on-the-coast-otter-mini-safari-30-05-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/a-punny-evening-on-the-coast-otter-mini-safari-30-05-19","title":{"rendered":"A punny evening on the coast; Otter mini-Safari 30\/05\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I collected Lucy, William, David, Bella and Maia from Wallington and we headed eastwards to Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland<\/a> for an evening searching NEWT’s favourite Otter<\/a> sites…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very obliging Dipper<\/em><\/strong> was perched on a mid-stream branch at our first stop with the songs of Chiffchaff, Robin, Chaffinch<\/em><\/strong> and Song Thrush<\/em><\/strong> adding to the aural backdrop. On the coast, Avocets<\/em><\/strong> were alarming every time a Carrion Crow<\/em><\/strong> or Grey Heron<\/em><\/strong> flew by, Lapwing<\/em><\/strong> crests were being ruffled in the breeze that eventually brought a heavy rain shower, Shelduck<\/em><\/strong> and Mallard<\/em><\/strong> parents were tending to their broods of undeniably cute fluffballs and a Barn Owl<\/em><\/strong> ghosted along the dunes before obligingly settling on a fence post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With dusk being marked by the sky getting slightly darker than the overcast glowering gloom of earlier in the evening, Mute Swans<\/em><\/strong> were feeding quietly, Canada Geese<\/em><\/strong> and Greylag Geese<\/em><\/strong> arrived to roost, anything other than quietly, a Great Crested Grebe<\/em><\/strong> repeatedly caught and consumed small fish in front of us, a Roe Deer hurtled along the bank and swallows, martins<\/em><\/strong> and Swifts<\/em><\/strong> were flycatching through a mesmerising whirling flock of Black-headed Gulls<\/em><\/strong> as we reached the point of ‘difficult to see anything out there now’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evening added to considerably to our 11 year development of Otter-related puns. ‘otterly amazing\/terrible\/wonderful’ are all tried and tested, but a couple of new ones put in an appearance “What’s an Otters favourite food? Frittotter” and “What’s an Otters favourite opera? La Traviotter” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I collected Lucy, William, David, Bella and Maia from Wallington and we headed eastwards to Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland for an evening searching NEWT’s favourite Otter sites… A very obliging Dipper was perched on a mid-stream branch at our first stop with the songs of Chiffchaff, Robin, Chaffinch and Song Thrush adding to the […]<\/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":[40,97,271,560,272,257,488,283,190,123,171,189],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-southeast-northumberland","tag-avocet","tag-barn-owl","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-canada-goose","tag-carrion-crow","tag-dipper","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-mallard","tag-shelduck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","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=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}