{"id":5049,"date":"2021-05-17T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:44:16","slug":"otter-safari-15-05-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/druridge\/otter-safari-15-05-21","title":{"rendered":"Otter Safari 15\/05\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last 14 months has been a strange time of arranging, postponing, rearranging, postponing, so it was a relief to finally be heading to Newbiggin to collect Mel, George, Betsy and Ernest for a few hours around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/experiences\/tour\/12\">southeast Northumberland and Druridge Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting with clear blue skies  we watched <strong><em>mallards, gadwall, Canada geese, mute swans, cormorants, herons<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>pied wagtails<\/em><\/strong> as <strong><em>common whitethroat, willow warbler<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>chiffchaff<\/em><\/strong> all sang from the bushes around us and <strong><em>sand martin<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>swallow<\/em><\/strong> plundered the myriad of flying insects over the water.   <strong><em>Pygmy goats<\/em><\/strong> that had found a way out of their enclosure watched as we walked by, demonstrating an apparent disdain for thorns as they munched on bramble leaves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a picnic stop on a clifftop overlooking the North Sea, with <strong><em>gannets<\/em><\/strong> heading north and <strong><em>fulmars<\/em><\/strong> arcing gracefully by, just a few metres away from us, we headed up the coast, stopping when we saw a group of photographers, and were treated to incredible views of a <strong><em>barn owl<\/em><\/strong> as it quartered rough grassland.  As cloud cover enveloped the entire sky, other than a small strip on the western horizon, <strong><em>reed buntings<\/em><\/strong> sang their simple song, <strong><em>coots, mute swans, tufted ducks<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>great crested grebes<\/em><\/strong> drifted through flat water and the reeds were lit orangy-red by a spectacular sunset as the explosive rant of a<strong> <em>Cetti&#8217;s warbler<\/em><\/strong> burst from the reeds as a red fox made it&#8217;s way through poolside vegetation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last 14 months has been a strange time of arranging, postponing, rearranging, postponing, so it was a relief to finally be heading to Newbiggin to collect Mel, George, Betsy and Ernest for a few hours around southeast Northumberland and Druridge Bay. Starting with clear blue skies we watched mallards, gadwall, Canada geese, mute swans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97,919,268,593,178,127,227,213],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","tag-barn-owl","tag-cettis-warbler","tag-chiffchaff","tag-common-whitethroat","tag-mute-swan","tag-reed-bunting","tag-sedge-warbler","tag-willow-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","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=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}