#WDCShorewatch volunteers recently hit the incredible milestone of 100,000 Shorewatch surveys - or 1 MILLION MINUTES of survey effort 🥳🍾 Cheers to #CitizenScience

3 days of thick haar in Shetland & then BOOM 💥 Pod of orca passing Eshaness Lighthouse right below our feet! #WDCShorewatch

The Scottish Vessel Project has made it to TV 😁 Yesterday Arlene, Susan, Fiona + Steven from BBC Landward came to one of our study sites to paddleboard and talk about how to boat/paddle responsibly around seals and other marine life. Catch us on TV in the next series! 🤩😊🚤🛶🎥

Bottlenose breaching on our way out of Aberdeen harbour this evening, data recorded with ORCA 🐬 NorthLink Ferries

We're working with Former NatureScot account, Marine Scotland, Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) and Ythan Seal Watch to keep Scotland's marine life safe this summer.

PC Sutherland from the Wildlife Crime Unit shares how we can respect and protect dolphins, whales and seals 👇

#OpSeabird #RespectProtectEnjoy

Brilliant Scottish Wildlife Trust Loch of Lintrathen reserve! Full of native trees and fabulous birdlife. Oh and a stack of used disposable BBQs stuffed under a fallen tree 🙃

A great trip out with Scottish Wildlife Trust trustees today to reserves in Ayrshire and very successful Nectar Network sites 🪻🐝 at least 7 species of butterfly recorded 🦋

Hopefully this is the Icelandic whaling door firmly shut, locked and bolted for good 🙏🙏🙏uk.whales.org/2023/06/20/suc…

Swimming wild and free, as they should be #EndCaptivity

Long summer evenings watching Risso's dolphins (from Holborn Head, Scrabster) Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC)

On Haar watch at Strathy Point today!

A whirlwind trip to Orkney to work (and play🤩), including chatting port developments with Orkney Islands Council, WDC Shorewatches + steering groups, trialing the Scottish Vessel Projects new handheld hydrophone with marine queen assistant Anna Moscrop 🤗 A brilliant few days!💙

Risso's dolphin mother and calf passing by the cliffs at Yesnaby, Orkney today. Dreamy #WDCShorewatch conditions Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC)

Why are killer whales attacking boats? Q&A with yours truly theconversation.com/why-are-killer… via The Conversation

Set up at Ness bunker with Rita the Risso’s this evening! Come join us to watch out for 🐳 & 🐬 as part of #OrkneyNatureFestival

Want to hear more (and most of all, see some awesome footage) of killer whale and other marine mammal foraging behaviours in an increasingly humanised ocean? Then sign up below to hear me and others talk all things orcas, this Thursday, 6pm UK time! 🐳
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Often the reality of Shorewatch 🐳☕️

Risso's Dolphin swimming in crystal clear Atlantic water off the west coast of Shetland this week.

Joined the SMASS team on Shapinsay for a full necropsy of this male juvenile Sowerby’s beaked whale today 🐳🐳🐳