My usual morning walk on Saturday 13th January along the seafront at Whitehead was made all the more interesting by the sighting of 2 Bottlenose Dolphin quite close inshore. There had been a recent run of records of this charismatic species through January with sightings mainly along the east Antrim coast. This follows a pattern
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The IWDG would like to ask all boat owners planning to try and see the humpback whale off Co Wexford this weekend to be aware of Marine Notice 15/2005 and respect the whale. Marine Notice 15 of 2005 “GUIDELINES FOR CORRECT PROCEDURES WHEN ENCOUNTERING WHALES AND DOLPHINS IN IRISH COASTAL WATERS” was issused by the
Over the coming days 22-24th January, along with researchers from BIM & GMIT and a film crew from Crossing the Line Films, IWDG will conduct three survey days in the waters off Hook Hd and East Waterford. Our research platform will be Martin Colfer’s 11m twin engine catamaran, the MV Rebecca C which should be
Report II, 19/01/10. News just in from our contact, Deirdre Slevin that the large whales are still in the waters off Hook Head today 19th Jan., as despite the awful weather, skipper Brendan Glody has observed further whale’s blowing from his house at Dunmore East in the area c3 miles south of Hook Head. Analysis
The IWDG, with funding from the Environment Fund for Biodiversity Awareness 2009, have reprinted their very popular book Face to Face with a Beached Whale: Guidelines for the welfare of live-stranded cetaceans, including turtles, seals, otters and seabirds. This is the 3rd edition of this booklet first published in 1995 in recognition of Ireland hosting
Report V, 09/01/10. A whale watch trip out around Hook Head, Co. Wexford on Sat 9th Jan answered the question as to which whale species people were seeing in recent days around the Hook area between Baginbun and Dunmore east. On Sat afternoon Paddy Roche and Deirdre Slevin recorded between 3-5 fin whales between 4-6
The IWDG wishes all our members and supporters a Happy Christmas and a successful New Year. It has been another successful year for the IWDG which has continued to maintain its position as one of Irelands’ top NGOs. We have continued to monitor cetaceans in all Irish waters through our stranding and sightings schemes and
Report III, 22/12/09. IWDG have validated large whale activity (mostly fin whales) on seven consecutive days 16th-22nd December, in West Cork, which should provide some great sighting opportunities over the Christmas holiday period, if these northerly, settled weather pattern holds. Today’s sightings again suggest we have currently low numbers of fin whales at several sites
Report II, 20/12/09. All the reports arriving at IWDG from local sea watchers are suggesting strongly that the large whale activity is now centred on the east side of Seven Heads, in Courtmacsherry Bay area of West Cork. Certainly watches in the past few days off Galley Head and Ardfield area have failed to produce
Emmett Johnston, NPWS has just reported an unusually large aggregation of c150+ bottlenose dolphins in Lough Swilly, Co. Donegal heading south past Fort Dunree, and continuing as far as Buncrana. The flat calm conditions are providing great viewing conditions to locals living along the Lough. Emmett described what initially looked like a series of waves