{"id":289677,"date":"2025-11-29T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:26:11","slug":"norfolk-seal-wardens-tell-off-wildlife-photographers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289677\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk seal wardens tell off wildlife photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  But some have been accused of getting a bit too close for their close-ups.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Friends of Horsey Seals has highlighted what it describes as &#8220;totally unacceptable behaviour&#8221; by photographers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity posted its own photographs on Facebook, showing two people taking pictures on the beach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman said: &#8220;This morning the seal rescue team were checking on a pup that was flagged a few days ago as potentially being abandoned.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They arrived at Winterton-on-Sea at 8am to find two photographers on the beach, in very close proximity to a seal pup.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The organisation says photographers should not get closer than 100 metres to the creatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25636270.camera-hidden-dunes-livestream-seals-blakeney-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Camera hidden in dunes to livestream seals at Blakeney Point | Eastern Daily Press<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Both Horsey and Winterton-on-Sea are home to thousands of seals each winter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The spokesman added: &#8220;The first picture shows how close one of the guys was, wielding a camera with a huge zoom lens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Why would someone with that kind of camera need to be so close?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But some have been accused of getting a bit too close for their close-ups. The Friends of Horsey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-289677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289677","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=289677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}