With good weather predicted on the 3-day forcast for last Thursday, it was time to utilise our new flexible booking arrangement with Irish Ferries and book in a return trip to Holyhead. A quick glance at the forecast again on Wednesday night left me worried as Met Eireann predicted Force 5-6! Luckily they got it
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25/05/07 Update Kerry Report II Nick Massett of Ventry, Co. Kerry who has been carrying out regular “effort watches” from Slea Head area over the past two years, reports his first large baleen whale of the year on 25th May, when he observed a 30-60ft whale surface once among a large area of feeding gannets.
IWDG initially learned of this most recent Bottlenose dolphin activity during a “Heritage In Schools” visit to to St. Joseph’s Girls Primary School Kinsale on 23rd May, when several of the students informed IWDG Sightings Co-ordinator that there had been dolphins in the Sandycove and inner Habour area in recent days. So the students weren’t
Under the ISCOPE project we have just carried out a major upgrade of the IWDG website.
IWDG have just received a call 21/05/07 from Brendan Dillon, General Electric, who is working on the offshore windfarm at the Arklow Banks, Co. Wicklow, reporting a pod 7-8 Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus). This heralds the start of the well-documented Wicklow inshore movement of this poorly understood, deep-water species. Back around 2000, IWDG started receiving
Update 3: 16 May By Aidan Fleming This nice shot by Aidan Fleming taken at 19:00 on 16th May is of one of the pod of bottlenose dolphins bow-riding the LE Aisling, east of Cobh Town, near the Cork Harbour pilots station. This is the 4th consecutive day that these dolphins have remained in the
It’s been a busy week for IWDG on the live-stranding front, with two in two days. Today’s outcome was very different to yesterday’s.
Although the work of the IWDG is firmly focused on recording cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) in Irish waters, we do accept, validate and disseminate basking shark records in the same manner as we treat cetacean sightings. We will continue to do so until such time as a national recording scheme is established which can
28 April – Sperm whale live stranding (26 April) – update
The IWDG have just received an interesting report from Marie Ryan, Kilkee, Co. Clare, with supporting images, which help us piece together a missing piece of the jigsaw regarding the movements of the juvenile humpback whale which was originally observed by Nick Massett, IWDG member while filming in Inch, Co. Kerry with a BBC film