“Whales Galore!” was the title of the email sent into the Sea Watch Foundation office late in the evening of Tuesday 6th May. Local regional coordinator, Alan Airey, was delighted to have seen a group of five minke whales from the shore at Burghead. Not only was this a great si
Getting up at the crack of dawn only to go perch solo on a lonely stone pier for hours, sometimes without so much as a gull in sight – “who would do such a thing?” one may wonder. Especially when considering the often rainy, windy, grey and chilly spring conditions typical of t
From the 5th to the 9th April, cetacean scientists flocked from all over the world to attend the 28th annual European Cetacean Society Conference in Liege, Belgium. This year the focus of the conference was marine mammals as sentinels of a changing marine environment, presenting and s