{"id":797385,"date":"2026-10-09T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797385\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:48:11","slug":"why-horsey-gap-is-the-best-spot-for-seals-this-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797385\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Horsey Gap is the best spot for seals this Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Between November and February each year, Horsey Gap becomes a haven for wildlife enthusiasts, photographers, and day-trippers, as thousands of seals haul out of the sea onto the beach to give birth and raise their pups.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The beach is home to one of the largest grey seal colonies on the east coast, with hundreds of pups born there each year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Horsey Gap is about to become populated with grey seals. \"\/>Horsey Gap is about to become populated with grey seals. (Image: Joe Giddens\/PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the 2025\/2026 season, more than 3,500 seal pups were born between Horsey and Winterton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Horsey Gap is perfect for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26531842.norfolk-almost-certain-see-seals-autumn\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spotting seals<\/a> this season thanks to its wide, sandy beaches, rolling dunes, and relatively undisturbed coastline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For visitors, the dunes offer excellent viewpoints, allowing people to watch the animals from a safe distance without disturbing them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The area is monitored by volunteers to protect the seals, and visitors are advised to watch them from the dunes, keep dogs on leads, and not to approach the seals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Visitors are reminded to look but not touch.\"\/>Visitors are reminded to look but not touch. (Image: Joe Giddens\/PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In August, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26444236.friends-horsey-seals-launches-seal-disturbance-form\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seal disturbance form<\/a> was introduced to encourage people to report incidents of people disturbing the seals.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  So while the seals may be a stunning spectacle, they should be seen and not touched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between November and February each year, Horsey Gap becomes a haven for wildlife enthusiasts, photographers, and day-trippers, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-797385","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\/797385","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=797385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}