Additional sightings

03/08/2010 large dolphins breaching off Whitburn obs, possibly 2x Risso's Dolphin (via Andy Tait)

05/08/2010 25+ White-beaked Dolphins, Lynemouth Bay 19:20-19:30 (NEWT), best cetacean sighting yet for Northern Experience Wildlife Tours :-)

Sightings 05/08/2010

Bottlenose Dolphin 1 in Lynemouth Bay 11:15 (NEWT)

4-5 large active dolphins well offshore from Snab Point, unidentifiable in heat haze 11:20 (NEWT)

Yet more sightings 04/08/2010

1 Harbour Porpoise, Church Point, Newbiggin 14:40 (NEWT)

3 Harbour Porpoise, Snab Point 15:20 (NEWT)

4 Bottlenose Dolphins, Snab Point 19:30 (NEWT)

12 White-beaked Dolphins, off Druridge Pools yesterday evening (G. Roberts)

Dolphins 04/08/2010

4-5 Bottlenose Dolphins S past Newbiggin at 11:55, then heading N towards Church Point at 13:10 (A. Priest)

20-40 Bottlenose Dolphins 4 miles E of St Mary's Island at 11:46 (A. Skinner)

All good data for the Northeast Cetacean project. Now, we just need something similar on the Northern Experience Wildlife Tours pelagic this Friday :-)

White-beaked Dolphins

Pod of 20-25 past Seaton Sluice at lunchtime today (B. Dack)

Whitburn sightings

24/07/10 9 Bottlenose Dolphins N (later seen in King Edward's Bay, Tynemouth) (Andy Tait)

25/07/10 1 Minke Whale (Andy Tait)

Minkes! off the King of Scandanavia

ORCA Wildlife Officers recent sightings
24th July Netherlands
Porpoise pods x3
25th July Newcastle
4x Minke whales. 1 breaching x3 times next to ship. 1 porpoising alongside ship. Off Flamborough Head
2x harbour porpoise pods