{"id":536658,"date":"2026-04-17T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:47:13","slug":"orca-visits-to-northumberland-coast-are-increasing-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536658\/","title":{"rendered":"Orca visits to Northumberland coast are increasing, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orcas feed on fish, but will also target seals and sea birds, of which there are an abundance around the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The question I&#8217;ve been asking myself is not why they&#8217;re coming now, but why they weren&#8217;t here before,&#8221; Kitching said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are just two resident orcas in UK waters, two older males named John Coe and Aquarius, who were spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c33l5dngm45o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">off the coast of Cornwall on 1 April. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are the remaining members of the West Coast Community pod of 10 orcas, which was frequently spotted around the UK and Ireland in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other orcas visit from places such as Iceland, but are more commonly seen in the Shetlands and the west coast of Scotland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orcas feed on fish, but will also target seals and sea birds, of which there are an abundance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-536658","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\/536658","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=536658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}