Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
08/09/2023 15:00 Harbour Porpoise 3 0 Normal swimming 5

Off The Stack to west of Calf of Man

Elizabeth Dunlop
08/09/2023 12:00 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 210

Marine Drive Toll Gate-Pigeon Stream-Douglas Head

MWDW, Sue, Carol and others
08/09/2023 10:30 Harbour porpoise 3 2 Feeding or foraging 60

Port Soderick

Michael Quayle
08/09/2023 10:00 Risso’s Dolphin 5 4 Logging on surface 90

West of Calf

Ian
08/09/2023 06:30 Minke Whale 3 0 Feeding or foraging 120

Marine drive Toll Gate

Adam TS
07/09/2023 16:40 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 30

Marine drive Toll Gate

Adam TS
07/09/2023 07:20 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 30

Marine drive Toll Gate

Pawel G
06/09/2023 17:10 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Bow riding 25

Castletown

Lee Jones, C.Pedder
05/09/2023 09:00 Moonlight and Starlight 1 1 Fast swim or porpoising 550

Port Erin to Laxey

Gini, Matt and others
04/09/2023 19:25 Harbour Porpoise 3 0 Feeding or foraging 10

Port St Mary

Kerr Family
04/09/2023 11:00 Risso’s Dolphin 10 10 Feeding or foraging 210

Toll gate Marine Drive

Carol Woodall, Sue Whittaker, James Joyce, Elisa Matthews, James Robertson
03/09/2023 16:55 Unidentified Small Cetacean Leaping 1

5 miles wnw of Calf Sound

Nina, Joanna and Dermot Shimmin
01/09/2023 16:35 Unidentified Small Cetacean 4 0 Leaping 2

Eleven miles NW from Calf Sound

Nina, Joanna and Dermot Shimmin
30/08/2023 18:40 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 0 Feeding or foraging 10

Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
29/08/2023 09:40 Moonlight and Starlight 1 1 Fast swim or porpoising 270

Castletown-Douglas

Simon Williams, Ruth Black, Shelley