A video of a beluga whale visiting the River Thames off Coalhouse Fort has been reported this morning on Twitter by ecologist and ornithologist Dave Andrews. The scientists at Sea Watch Foundation are very pleased to realise how positively the general public responds to this encounter
I was recently lucky enough to see a Harbour porpoise up close. Unfortunately, this was a long dead, heavily decomposed corpse… but a porpoise nonetheless. The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) investigate all reported cases of stranded cetaceans. An individual can
On September 14th an otter was spotted in the sea, travelling along the edge of the pier in New Quay, Wales. As a rare sight, this was first thought of as a seal, or a strange- looking dolphin, but no it was definitely an otter. As it was swimming around quite happily in the sea it wa