{"id":166106,"date":"2025-09-28T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166106\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:16:10","slug":"first-seal-pups-make-early-arrival-at-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166106\/","title":{"rendered":"First seal pups make early arrival at nature reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grey seal pups have appeared a month earlier than usual at a nature reserve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pupping season in Cumbria generally runs from October to mid-November, but this year at South Walney Nature Reserve, the first pup was spotted on 31 August. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was called &#8220;a lovely late summer surprise&#8221; by conservationists at the trust. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second pup was born three weeks later, on 17 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grey seal pups have appeared a month earlier than usual at a nature reserve. The pupping season in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-166106","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\/166106","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=166106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}