Saturday 21 July 2018

More on Bottles...

We  are hoping to get some matches from photos of Kens Dolphins which Ken tells me,were mainly females with calves. It remains to be seen whether they were part of the "resident" Cardigan Bay bottles or strangers from elsewhere.
It seems that  they were seen heading south at other locations including Whitesands  Ramsey Sound St Brides Bay and then as the sun was going down Skomer Warden, Ed Stubbings  took these wonderfully evocative images from Skomer!
 

It is very rare for Bottlenose Dolphins to be seen south of Cardigan Bay where Common Dolphins or even Risso's are more likely to be seen . However close inspection of Eds images show the trademark stubby beak of Bottlenose, so I am sure that these are probably the same pod of circa 30-40 mainly females and young! 

So are they ours or visitors? We will probably never know, but it would be nice to know if anyone else sees them!