Just received an interesting sighting of a White-beaked Dolphin observed by surveyors bow-riding their vessel about 15 miles south of Worthing (9th November 2011). Followers of this blog may remember we had a small group of white beaked dolphins sighted some miles off shore between Eastbourne and Dieppe back in April this year.
This species often bow-rides so it is interesting that both local sightings of these dolphins were bowriding. This species is not normally recorded in the English Channel.
Friday, 2 December 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Seal in the River Ouse East Sussex
Another seal is currently in the river ouse East Sussex. It does not appear to be the usual 'Ouse Seal ' that regularly visits this river or Twinkle the rescued and released seal we have been following this year.
The seal was first reported to me on the 29th Nov and I received a message from British Divers Marine Life Rescue that they had attended the seal on 28th Nov. The seal is a little on the thin side.
The seal was first reported to me on the 29th Nov and I received a message from British Divers Marine Life Rescue that they had attended the seal on 28th Nov. The seal is a little on the thin side.
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Bottlenose dolphins off Brighton
A large group of bottlenose dolphins were reported 12 miles off Brighton. The sighting, that appeared on the news was made by Mr Lambert, who was fishing 12 miles off the Brighton coast when the dolphins appeared.
He said
"I have seen dolphins four times off Brighton, and twice this year.
"These were the biggest dolphins I've seen off Brighton."
The dolphins played around the vessel occasionally leaping out of the water near the boat.
The group was said to contain 70 dolphins, even allowing for an over estimation (which is common) this was still a large group.
If you did not see it, below is a link to the ITV website
http://www.itv.com/meridian-west/leaping-for-joy42159/
He said
"I have seen dolphins four times off Brighton, and twice this year.
"These were the biggest dolphins I've seen off Brighton."
The dolphins played around the vessel occasionally leaping out of the water near the boat.
The group was said to contain 70 dolphins, even allowing for an over estimation (which is common) this was still a large group.
If you did not see it, below is a link to the ITV website
http://www.itv.com/meridian-west/leaping-for-joy42159/
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Grey seal at Goring
I received a grey seal sighting from the Sussex Wildlife Trust 'Wildcall' conservation officer.
The seal was seen at 12.30 pm on Thursday 13th October and is almost certainly the same seal as reported nearby at Goring on 17th October. The seal was about 20 metres from the high tide off the beach at Rustington.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Grey Seal, Goring West Sussex
I received a report of a seal off the beach at Marine Drive Goring-by-Sea from Mark and Claire. They took their children across to the beach and to their surprise watched a seal about 10 metres off the beach.
The seal was about 30 - 40 metre's off the beach and was photographed with the seal's head above the water. From the photographs, the seal appears to be a grey seal, with its flat head and Roman nose.Mark and Claire's description also suggests a grey seal.
Mark and Claire stayed for about 20 minutes and the seal periodically disappeared and reappeared at this distance. There was a large number of sea sports such as wind and kite surfing towards the east about 1 km way and the seal seemed to be very aware of the activity. If fact Mark and Claire said the seal is looking in that direction in the photo.
The seal was about 30 - 40 metre's off the beach and was photographed with the seal's head above the water. From the photographs, the seal appears to be a grey seal, with its flat head and Roman nose.Mark and Claire's description also suggests a grey seal.
Friday, 14 October 2011
Seal in the River Arun
A member of the public (Jason) reported a seal in the Arun River (West Sussex) 1/4mile south of the marina at Ford. It was in the evening around 6.30pm. Jason reported that the seal was swimming on the surface travelling with the outgoing tide. when it saw us, it dived and surfaced around 100yds further down river about a minute later with a fish.
The last time I received a seal sighting in the Arun was back in 2008 when a common seal was seen (and photographed) above Arundel. There is a link below to my earlier blog entry of this sighting
http://sussexmarinejottings.blogspot.com/2008/08/catch-up.html
The last time I received a seal sighting in the Arun was back in 2008 when a common seal was seen (and photographed) above Arundel. There is a link below to my earlier blog entry of this sighting
http://sussexmarinejottings.blogspot.com/2008/08/catch-up.html
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Return to the Wild
The young common seal rescued on Hove beach back in August is now recovered and was released back into then sea by the RSPCA Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre Mallydams today.
Below you can see a series of photographs all taken by Nikki Lambert of the moment the seal pup was released. The seal has been tagged so if the seal is unfortunate enough to be stranded in the future we will know about it. Who knows, we may also get a glimpse of this pup from time to time, as with Twinkle, the seal as it will be recognisable from the flipper tag and possibly from the photographs taken for ID purposes.
These images are (c) Nikki Lambert
The release of this seal was filmed by Autumn Watch and should be aired on Friday 4th November.
Below you can see a series of photographs all taken by Nikki Lambert of the moment the seal pup was released. The seal has been tagged so if the seal is unfortunate enough to be stranded in the future we will know about it. Who knows, we may also get a glimpse of this pup from time to time, as with Twinkle, the seal as it will be recognisable from the flipper tag and possibly from the photographs taken for ID purposes.
These images are (c) Nikki Lambert
The release of this seal was filmed by Autumn Watch and should be aired on Friday 4th November.
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