{"id":263266,"date":"2025-11-14T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263266\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:05:07","slug":"humpback-whale-spotted-off-the-norfolk-coast-at-winterton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263266\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale spotted off the Norfolk coast at Winterton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The humpback whale was seen by Andrew Williamson while he was fishing for herring off Winterton on 6 November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I got quite emotional about it all,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was such a heartfelt moment, but nothing good lasts forever.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There&#8217;s an abundance of herring off the Norfolk coast, so food for him or her will not be a problem&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25619557.spot-nearly-extinct-goshawk-returning-norfolk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to spot the &#8216;very rare&#8217; raptor making a comeback to Norfolk<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The identification of the species of whale was confirmed by British Divers Marine Rescue, which said it was monitoring the mammal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The spotting of the whale is not the first seen in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last year, a pilot whale was sighted in shallow water at Snettisham Beach, near King&#8217;s Lynn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kayakers and paddle boarders tried to coax the creature to safety out into the Wash, and it appeared at one point to swim out to deeper water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The humpback whale was seen by Andrew Williamson while he was fishing for herring off Winterton on 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-263266","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\/263266","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=263266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}