White-beaked Dolphins 26/06/2013

2 White-beaked Dolphins were seen in Newbiggin Bay, Northumberland, yesterday evening (A. Priest)

Bottlenose Dolphins 21/10/2012

A remarkable series of reports for Sunday 21st October, with a pod of well over 100 Bottlenose Dolphins traveling slowly south along the Northumberland coast from Cocklawburn in the north to Newbiggin by the Sea in southeast Northumberland (latest report received by the North East Cetacean Project at 16:30).

When you're feeding on scraps...

Not much, but it was a cetacean;

Church Point, Newbiggin by the Sea, 04/10/09 17:25-18:55

Harbour Porpoise 1

The porpoise of seawatching

On a 4-hr seawatch yesterday afternoon/evening, at least 4 Harbour Porpoises were just offshore at Church Point, Newbiggin

An evening watch

With the forecast heavy rain nowhere to be seen (not like the Met Office to get it wrong...) I decided to spend an hour at Church Point this evening. The sea was very calm and there wasn't a breath of wind. Viewing conditions were ideal for cetacean watching though and the hour produced;

Harbour Porpoise 2
Bottlenose Dolphin 1