{"id":667879,"date":"2026-01-02T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:18:09","slug":"adorable-donna-nook-seal-pup-expressions-caught-on-camera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/667879\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable Donna Nook seal pup expressions caught on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Keen photographers have captured adorable pictures of button-eyed, fluffy seal pups in a corner of the Lincolnshire coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hundreds of visitors flock to see the grey seal pups that are born at Donna Nook Nature Reserve, near Louth, each year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The season usually lasts between October and December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This year saw 1,924 pups born at the reserve, 274 more than last year which saw a &#8220;significant drop&#8221; in numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Tuesday, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said all of the adult seals had headed back out to sea and there were 12 pups visible from the viewing area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keen photographers have captured adorable pictures of button-eyed, fluffy seal pups in a corner of the Lincolnshire coast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-667879","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\/115822638062571840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667879","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=667879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}