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Animal Lovers
With our peaceful forests and unspoilt spaces, our region is a haven for wildlife. Get back to nature. You’ll find breeding puffins and Northern Europe’s largest grey seal colony on the Farne Islands . Take a boat trip from Seahouses in May, June or July to see the puffins and in autumn to see the seal pups.
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Rare black grouse breed in Upper Teesdale and you may be lucky enough to spot red squirrels in Northumberland National Park.
And in Raby Castle’s 200-acre deer park, you can watch red and fallow deer descended from herds that have roamed here since Norman times.
Get up close and personal
If you’re after a really ‘up close’ experience head for the WWT Washington Wetland Centre, where the residents include flamingos and Hawaiian geese, or the Blue Reef Aquarium at Tynemouth, with its underwater views of harbour seals and sharks.
You can feed the animals at our farm attractions – Tweddle Children’s Animal Farm, Hall Hill Farm, Down at the Farm and White House Farm. Or go on a pony trek and see our wildlife from the saddle – you can’t get closer to nature than that!
