Yesterday evening 26th August a large whale appeared to be caught in lobster pots off Greencastle on the Donegal side of Lough Foyle entrance. The whale, which Andrew Speer local NPW Conservation Ranger has confirmed is around 40ft, is an adult humpback whale, died over night. At time of writing 11:00 am Fri. 27th it
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The IWDG are now receiving a steady stream of first hand accounts of the bottlenose dolphin in Fanore, Co Clare interacting aggressively with swimmers. Thankfully, thus far, there have been no serious injuries, but we feel the public need to be alerted
Yesterday afternoon the IWDG received reports of 3 common dolphins live stranded at Cloghane, Co Kerry. We understand that by Saturday evening, one dolphin was dead but two were refloated. More details will be posted once received.
This morning 8th Sept 2004 at 08:30 Emer Rogan relayed a call to me from Clonakilty Garda Station that two dolphins had live stranded at the causeway between Inchydoney and Dunmore, West Cork at 51° 36 20N & 8° 53 30 W On arrival at the site local garda and fire brigade had dug around
We now understand that they stranded the previous evening, Sat. 4th. Two of the dolphins died overnight but the 3rd was still alive and appeared to be quite active. Despite a heavy discharge from its eyes, it seems this animal may be suitable for a refloat attempt. At time of writing (11:00 am) a tractor
A harbour porpoise that was live stranded in the Bannow estuary, Co Wexford was successfully refloated thanks to a very effective local effort.
“Boomerang”, as its become known, has in the last four years returned to the same area of West Cork, with a prodigious sense of timing. In each year since 2001 it has been monitored by IWDG in either the last week in August or first week in September.
In recent weeks, local IWDG co-ordinator, Mick O’ Connell has been busy in Co. Kerry. Within the last two weeks he has attended two live strandings of common dolphins in the kingdom.
On the afternoon of August 20th Emer Rogan received reports of a live-stranded large dolphin near Courtown, Co. Wexford. The “dolphin” which at over 13ft length was refloated around 10 times, and as one would expect after so many refloat attempts, it died around 19:00 on Fri. evening. On Sat. 21st Aug. IWDG received a
Suggested viewing sites would be Galley Head, and Dunowen Head near Clonakilty or Dunworley and Seven Heads near Courtmacsherry. The whales seem to be in an area between latitude 51 20N -51 23N and Longitude 8 50W- 9 02W. So Galley Head may well offer the best vantage point. On Sat. morning 21st Aug. a