{"id":5195,"date":"2026-09-26T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:22:12","slug":"of-gannets-and-gulls-newts-4hr-pelagics-25-09-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/of-gannets-and-gulls-newts-4hr-pelagics-25-09-26","title":{"rendered":"Of gannets and gulls: NEWT’s 4hr pelagics 25\/09\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday we had our final scheduled pelagics for 2026 (although, watch this space…). On a breezy day, with a choppy sea once we were more than a mile from land, juvenile Gannets<\/em><\/strong> were demonstrating how they’ve not quite got the hang of ganneting just yet…while adults will circle repeatedly and locate prey before diving from height, the juveniles were often flopping into the sea from just a few feet \ud83d\ude42 Guillemots<\/em><\/strong> and Razorbills<\/em><\/strong> were rafting, there was a steady passage of Red-throated Divers<\/em><\/strong>, dainty Little Gulls<\/em><\/strong> were dip-feeding everywhere from St Mary’s Island to Marsden Rock, Arctic, Pomarine <\/em><\/strong>and Long-tailed Skuas<\/em><\/strong> were heading north and ignoring the range of victims available to them over shoals of Herring<\/em><\/strong>, and Wigeon, Teal , <\/em><\/strong>and Common Scoter<\/em><\/strong> passed in flocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus<\/em>, North Sea, off South Shields 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus<\/em>, North Sea, off South Shields 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata<\/em>, North Sea, off South Shields 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Eider Somateria mollissima<\/em>, River Tyne, North Shields 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Northern Gannet Morus bassanus<\/em>, North Sea, Northumberland 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Guillemot Uria aalge<\/em>, North Sea, Northumberland 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Northern Gannet Morus bassanus<\/em>, North Sea, Northumberland 25\/09\/26 (c)NorthernExperienceImages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday we had our final scheduled pelagics for 2026 (although, watch this space…). On a breezy day, with a choppy sea once we were more than a mile from land, juvenile Gannets were demonstrating how they’ve not quite got the hang of ganneting just yet…while adults will circle repeatedly and locate prey before diving from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105,5],"tags":[362,1012,67,185,186,301,93,498,387,226,69,169,181],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","tag-arctic-skua","tag-arctic-tern-sandwich-tern-common-tern","tag-common-scoter","tag-gannet","tag-guillemot","tag-kittiwake","tag-little-gull","tag-long-tailed-skua","tag-pomarine-skua","tag-razorbill","tag-red-throated-diver","tag-teal","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}