{"id":472972,"date":"2026-03-13T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:13:22","slug":"caught-on-camera-otter-and-heron-busted-stealing-fish-from-northumberland-fishing-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472972\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on camera: Otter and heron busted stealing fish from Northumberland fishing boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Henderson is the skipper of a fishing boat in Amble on the Northumberland coast. But over the last few weeks, he\u2019s noticed that some of his fishing bait has gone missing. The team decided to put up some wildlife cameras in the hope of finding the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, it wasn\u2019t just one hungry animal looking for a snack. Kevin\u2019s footage discovered an otter and a heron getting into the fishing boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The team has continued to capture overnight video footage of the Amber Harbour\u2019s wildlife on board MFV Natalie Kristen II, which they\u2019ve been sharing on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ambleboattrips\/?locale=en_GB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> to great amusement.<\/p>\n<p>An otter and a heron caught red-handed by the wildlife cameras on board MFV Natalie Kristen II (credit: Amble Boat Trips)  <\/p>\n<p>Top image: Otter stealing fish (credit: Amble Boat Trips) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Henderson is the skipper of a fishing boat in Amble on the Northumberland coast. But over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-472972","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\/472972","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=472972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}