{"id":468261,"date":"2026-03-10T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:04:08","slug":"delight-after-another-seal-spotted-on-banks-of-mersey-in-warrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468261\/","title":{"rendered":"Delight after another seal spotted on banks of Mersey in Warrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  A photo of the seal was snapped in passing by Stockton Heath resident Norman Goodhand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He spotted the seal on the banks of the River Mersey close to Marshall Gardens near the town centre on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Seals mainly turn up in town rivers because they are following food, exploring, or using sheltered spots to rest, and cleaner urban rivers now make that possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Seals are naturally inquisitive and will explore estuaries, harbours and rivers, including built\u2011up areas, if there\u2019s food and relatively little disturbance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Resting in sheltered water: Urban rivers and docks can offer calm, sheltered places to haul out and rest between feeding trips, especially in estuaries and tidal reaches near towns.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Seals have been spotted in the Mersey in Warrington on a number of previous occasions, but they are always a delight to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo of the seal was snapped in passing by Stockton Heath resident Norman Goodhand. He spotted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-468261","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\/468261","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=468261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}