{"id":467740,"date":"2026-03-10T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:19:08","slug":"residents-surprise-at-seeing-seal-in-alverstoke-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467740\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident&#8217;s surprise at seeing seal in Alverstoke Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ian King was on his lunchtime walk when he spotted the seal playing in Alverstoke Creek on February 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said:\u00a0&#8220;Initially I spotted a large shape moving across the surface of the water, which disappeared under Jackie Spencer bridge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Ian spotted the seal while out on his lunchtime walk (Image: Ian King)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen it since but I know that other denizens of Gosport have seen a seal that visits the marina and swims near people&#8217;s yachts, it may be the same one.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The sighting happened in the creek itself at the furthest point from the Solent.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The IT support desk manager lives on the border between Alverstoke and Leesland in Gosport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Despite growing up in Alverstoke and spending a lot of his time near the creek in his youth this was the first time he had seen one in the creek itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the summer months the creek is a popular spot for water sports with stand up paddle boarding and kayaking taking place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian King was on his lunchtime walk when he spotted the seal playing in Alverstoke Creek on February&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-467740","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\/467740","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=467740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}