{"id":448132,"date":"2025-09-24T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448132\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:39:11","slug":"video-captures-seal-swimming-in-mersey-in-warrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448132\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures seal swimming in Mersey in Warrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Alexandra Popescu was with her boyfriend in the Latchford area when she noticed the aquatic creature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI was with my partner. We had a day off and he wanted to go fishing. We were actually sitting there in that spot when we\u2019ve noticed it,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI was very surprised to see it, as I had no idea you can find them in here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In a video taken by Alexandra, the seal\u2019s head can be seen poking out of the river, before it dives under and swims away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It I isn\u2019t the first time a seal has been spotted in the Mersey in Warrington.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The animals have been seen before in the water in the Bridge Foot area, as well as in Penketh.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DO-aPwEjMOB\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"&#10;            background: #fff;&#10;            border: 0;&#10;            border-radius: 3px;&#10;            box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), 0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);&#10;            margin: 1px;&#10;            max-width: 540px;&#10;            min-width: 326px;&#10;            padding: 0;&#10;            width: 99.375%;&#10;            width: -webkit-calc(100% - 2px);&#10;            width: calc(100% - 2px);&#10;            \">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexandra Popescu was with her boyfriend in the Latchford area when she noticed the aquatic creature. \u201cI was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-448132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115259800824495829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}