{"id":417829,"date":"2026-02-10T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417829\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:30:08","slug":"river-wansbeck-otter-cubs-pictured-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417829\/","title":{"rendered":"River Wansbeck otter cubs pictured playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photographer has said he was &#8220;over the moon&#8221; to have taken snaps of two otter cubs scampering around a shoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Niel Stafford, from Bedlington in Northumberland, said he was at the River Wansbeck last week when he saw the two little ones &#8220;come along and play around for most of the day&#8221;, adding it was &#8220;such an honour seeing them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regular sightings of otters on a river are a sign of a healthy local ecosystem, the Wear Rivers Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stafford said: &#8220;I think there&#8217;s a lot more wildlife on the River Wansbeck now, more than there has ever been.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer has said he was &#8220;over the moon&#8221; to have taken snaps of two otter cubs scampering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-417829","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\/417829","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=417829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}