Hi Folks, It was great to be back at Chanonry Point this morning after the long spell of rotten weather. My Pal Alan and I watched Sundance and Squat Fin (both in the photo) Moonlight and her wee son, Mischief, Rainbow and Prism coming close into...
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Hi Everyone, Well - a different start to the day (and bank holiday weekend) being called out to what was meant to be a live porpoise stranding at Portmahomack near Tain, a bit further up than Inverness. Linda Nicolson from BDMLR and I headed up a...
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Hi Everyone, Please can we have some nice weather back??? I'm sure that it's nice where you are but up here in the Northey bit of Scotland it's...well - a bit rubbish for trying to photograph dolphins really ! This photo taken a while ago shows M...
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Hi Everyone, Moonlight and her baby (who is about 9 months old now) have been around a lot at Chanonry in the last few days. On one occasion they were having great fun and the calf jumped out of the water sideways - I managed to get a photo so I...
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Hi Everyone, I was on the beach at the crack of dawn yesterday morning as I had a group of students to meet from Middlesex University - their lecturer Dr. Steve Kett arranges a group visit every year and this group of really nice men and women fr...
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Hi Everyone, Well, those Easter holidays seemed to go on forever but it's great to get back to normal (or as normal as my life can be) and get the camera back out and be looking at dolphins again. Kesslet and Charlie are around most days in at th...
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Hi Everyone, I'm off on my Easter break now for a while and hope that by the time I come back that the dolphin sightings will have improved at Chanonry and Kessock. Spey Bay are having visits from dolphins nearly every day and I have just heard f...
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Hi Everyone, I had a great morning out on the Ecoventures RIB which was privately chartered by Andy and Elaine, lovely people and veteran dolphin watchers. My pal Alan was invited too, same as the last trip we had together and although it was a b...
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Hi Everyone, The very heavy rain that we have had up here seems to have paid dividends in bringing in the salmon because today we ended up with around 15 dolphins in and around Chanonry, hunting for fish in good style. My pal Alan had not long le...
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Hi Everyone, Although it's a pretty grotty day up here at North Kessock with high winds and heavy rain we have had the company of Kesslet and Charlie for an hour or two, both of them hunting in the fast current. Charlie is a bit frustrating to ph...
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Hi Everyone, It is still painfully quiet for dolphin sightings around Chanonry with only three dolphins sighted recently - a very brief glimpse of Kesslet and Charlie earlier in the week and then on Friday I had big "Scoopy" ID 748 pottering arou...
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Hi Everyone, I had to laugh at Kesslet and Charlie the other day when they were in at North Kessock. One of the big ships was making it's way out of the harbour and starting to pick up a bit of speed. Kesslet and Charlie made a bee line for the...
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