{"id":157282,"date":"2025-09-24T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157282\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:57:07","slug":"video-captures-seal-swimming-in-mersey-in-warrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157282\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures seal swimming in Mersey in Warrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Alexandra Popescu was with her boyfriend in the Latchford area when she noticed the aquatic creature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI was with my partner. We had a day off and he wanted to go fishing. We were actually sitting there in that spot when we\u2019ve noticed it,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI was very surprised to see it, as I had no idea you can find them in here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a video taken by Alexandra, the seal\u2019s head can be seen poking out of the river, before it dives under and swims away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It I isn\u2019t the first time a seal has been spotted in the Mersey in Warrington.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The animals have been seen before in the water in the Bridge Foot area, as well as in Penketh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra Popescu was with her boyfriend in the Latchford area when she noticed the aquatic creature. \u201cI was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-157282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}