Tagged with: Dolphin
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Dizzy dolphins
Martin Aaron
Cliff Benson from the Sea Trust has been in touch; concerned that more common dolphins are swimming into Fishguard Harbour and appearing disorientated. This has happened twice in the last month and Cliff is beginning to wonder if it's being caused by recent naval activity in the area. HMS Ech...
New boating scheme to protect Cardigan bottlenoses
Martin Aaron
As one of the very few UK locations with significant numbers of bottlenose dolphins, there's a new scheme coming for Cardigan Bay to ensure that healthy population continues. A recreational boating plan is being investigated to ensure the marine mammals are not disturbed by fast-moving se...
Whale and dolphin watching
Martin Aaron
Cliff Benson from the Sea Trust has been in touch about a recent spate of whale and dolphin encounters off the Welsh coast: "With two reports of minke whales seen in the Bristol Channel this month as well as hundreds of common dolphins off Pembrokeshire - it's safe to say, the whale & dolphin watching season is already off to a spectacular start". "June seems to be a particularly good month for seeing minke whales in our waters". "A recent survey by the Gower Marine Mammal Group just off the South Pembrokeshire Coast produced a feeding frenzy with at least two minke whales and one larger whale - probably a fin whale". "Risso's dolphins as well as hundreds of common dolphins were also recorded. Another minke whale was seen yesterday by charter vessel 'Jessica Hettie', off Lundy Island". A common dolphin off Ramsey Island taken by Richard Crossen on 6 June, 2010: "People are often surprised to hear of whales in our waters but with this beautiful weather and calm seas - we're hoping for a bumper season of sightings". "It seems that from our records, minke whales start arriving in our waters about now (June), following the mackerel shoals". "They also seem to be breeding here as can be seen from Adrian Shepherds picture taken on one of our recent surveys": "Last August we were surrounded by huge fin whales so you never really know what's going to be out there". Find out more about whales and dolphin sightings off the Welsh coast by following the Whales in Wales blog. We've had some lovely photos of dolphins submitted to our Flickr group so take a look if you have a spare minute. As usual - you can submit pics to our Flickr group or e-mail them to us at [email protected]. Gull
Dolphin football
Martin Aaron
If you haven't already seen it, take a look at the dolphin video on the BBC Wales nature portal currently. It's an amazing clip showing bottle nose dolphins playing around with jellyfish, smashing them up into the air with their tails. It can't have been much fun for the jellyfish though! The...
Eye pod
Martin Aaron
The BBC Wales Nature Flickr group are a very clever bunch of snappers... Since we started the photo group back in 2007, we've had something in the region of 5,600+ images and the standard blows my socks off so regularly that I've actually taken to wearing sandles around the office! ;0 Thes...
