{"id":617503,"date":"2026-06-02T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617503\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:51:09","slug":"stunning-pictures-of-orcas-breaching-in-the-farne-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/617503\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning pictures of orcas breaching in the Farne Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Pictures taken by Northern Echo Camera Club members in the Farne Islands captured the astonishing moments orcas were spotted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Orcas, puffins and other birds were captured on Sunday, May 31 by Camera Club members.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>An orca sticking its head out of the water (Image: SUE STUBBS)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Puffins on Farne Islands (Image: SUE STUBBS)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Orcas, Farne Islands\"\/>Camera Club member Geoff Herron captured this stunning shot (Image: GEOFF HERON)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A breath-taking photo by Geoff Herron shows an orca leaping out of the water, with Geoff saying it was &#8220;great to see them for the first time&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Other amazing photos taken by Sue Stubbs, who called it an &#8220;amazing day&#8221;, show two orcas swimming together, with another picture showing one orca breaching out the water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Puffins and guillemots, described as &#8220;one of the most common birds in the great &#8216;seabird cities'&#8221; by the RSPB, were also spotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictures taken by Northern Echo Camera Club members in the Farne Islands captured the astonishing moments orcas were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-617503","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\/617503","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=617503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}