{"id":4853,"date":"2019-07-25T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2019-07-25T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:49:18","slug":"porpoiseful-observation-newts-north-sea-pelagic-24-07-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/north-sea\/porpoiseful-observation-newts-north-sea-pelagic-24-07-19","title":{"rendered":"Porpoiseful observation; NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 24\/07\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday’s 4hr evening pelagic<\/a> started with a sky that looked certain to deliver an impressive sunset…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With little swell and only a very gentle westerly breeze, the sea was as smooth as we’ve seen it in a while. Puffins<\/em><\/strong> and Guillemots<\/em><\/strong> were on the water and skittering across the surface as we passed them, Kittiwakes<\/em><\/strong> were following us, Gannets<\/em><\/strong> soared by, flocks of Common Scoter<\/em><\/strong> were rafting then taking off and speckling the steel grey sky to the east and the star of the show was the tiny, undemonstrative Harbour Porpoise<\/em><\/strong>. we don’t encounter them very often so finding at least two mother\/calf pairs was a real bonus \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday’s 4hr evening pelagic started with a sky that looked certain to deliver an impressive sunset… With little swell and only a very gentle westerly breeze, the sea was as smooth as we’ve seen it in a while. Puffins and Guillemots were on the water and skittering across the surface as we passed them, Kittiwakes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[67,835,186,240,301,225],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-sea","tag-common-scoter","tag-grey-seal","tag-guillemot","tag-harbour-porpoise","tag-kittiwake","tag-puffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","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=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4859,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}