{"id":347318,"date":"2026-01-02T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:28:08","slug":"adorable-donna-nook-seal-pup-expressions-caught-on-camera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347318\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable Donna Nook seal pup expressions caught on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keen photographers have captured adorable pictures of button-eyed, fluffy seal pups in a corner of the Lincolnshire coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of visitors flock to see the grey seal pups that are born at Donna Nook Nature Reserve, near Louth, each year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The season usually lasts between October and December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year saw 1,924 pups born at the reserve, 274 more than last year which saw a &#8220;significant drop&#8221; in numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Tuesday, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said all of the adult seals had headed back out to sea and there were 12 pups visible from the viewing area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keen photographers have captured adorable pictures of button-eyed, fluffy seal pups in a corner of the Lincolnshire coast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-347318","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\/347318","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=347318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}