Next week’s Water, Wildlife & Walking trip could have a rather rare highlight if the Bearded Seal found on one of the beaches that we pass along lingers for a few days.
With only a handful of records in English waters over the last hundred years this Arctic seal is an unusual and rare visitor. The only record from the North East coast in modern times was an individual at Hartlepool in 1999.
Places are still available for Water, Wildlife & Walking on 27th May and with Little Tern and Arctic Tern numbers building up in Beadnell Bay, the first chicks hatching on our seabird cliffs and now the chance of a really rare mammal it promises to be a packed trip.