Recent cetacean sightings

Date Time Species Adult Juveniles Behaviour Duration Location Observer
November 27, 2022 14:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 4 1 Leaping 10

Peel breakwater

Andy Baxendale
November 22, 2022 12:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 0 6 Feeding or foraging 60

Outside Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
November 20, 2022 14:10 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 40

Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
November 20, 2022 14:55 Bottlenose Dolphin 4 0 Fast swim or porpoising 5

North end of Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
November 15, 2022 15:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 20 0 Feeding or foraging 70

2Km off Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
November 13, 2022 12:30 Harbour Porpoise 1 0 Feeding or foraging 15

Peel castle

MWDW
November 12, 2022 15:00 Minke Whale 1 0 Feeding or foraging 20

Peel castle

Amy, Kevin Walmsley
November 6, 2022 09:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 3 1 Normal swimming 5

Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
November 5, 2022 15:10 Bottlenose Dolphin 1 1 Fast swim or porpoising 5

Peel bay

Birds IOM
November 4, 2022 09:20 Bottlenose Dolphin 51 2 Leaping 40

Laxey bay

Shane Stigant
November 1, 2022 14:30 Bottlenose Dolphin 50 0 Fast swim or porpoising 60

Laxey-/maughold

Cheryl Southgate
October 19, 2022 18:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 10 0 Bow riding 10

Douglas harbour seen from the Ben

Gareth John
October 12, 2022 15:55 Minke Whale 1 0 Normal swimming 5

Pigeon stream, Marine drive

MWDW
October 11, 2022 11:00 Bottlenose Dolphin 20 0 Normal swimming 5

Langness

Barrule
October 11, 2022 17:28 Minke Whale 1 0 Normal swimming 2

Cow Harbour, Calf of Man

Calf oif Man Bird Observatory Team

Recent basking shark sightings

Date Time # of sharks (<2m) # of sharks (2-8m) # of sharks (>8m) Total # of Sharks Behaviour Duration Location Observer
June 21, 2022 19:15 1 1 Suspected feeding 20 Port Wallberry, Marine Drive Manx Ornithological Society Marine Drive walk
June 21, 2022 17:15 1 Suspected feeding 25 350m off Glen Wyllin Ian Young
June 18, 2022 11:00 1 Swimming 15 Marine Drive Craig Whalley
June 16, 2022 12:10 1 Suspected feeding 20 Douglas head Ian Wilcock
June 15, 2022 13:45 Suspected feeding 30 Port Soderick Jordan Palfreman
June 15, 2022 15:15 1 Suspected feeding 20 West of Calf of Man Quentin De Backer
June 15, 2022 15:15 1 Suspected feeding 5 Port Erin bay Not recorded
June 15, 2022 12:10 3 Tight circling 20 6 miles south Sugar loaf Kirrie jenkins, Doug Patrick
June 15, 2022 11:05 1 Suspected feeding 35 Douglas head Ian Wilcock
June 14, 2022 21:30 2 Suspected feeding 35 Marine drive Port Soderick end Kevin Sharpe
June 13, 2022 19:55 1 Tight circling 15 Fort Island David Bellamy & Robert Fisher
June 12, 2022 10:40 1 Suspected feeding 120 Peel headlands-breakwater John Baker, Alastair Sutherland, Jon Corlett, Elli Gawne, Julie Howarth
June 11, 2022 15:15 1 Suspected feeding 160 Gansey bay Tim, Richard Corlett
June 9, 2022 10:57 1 Suspected feeding 10 Jurby Lizzie Coote
June 7, 2022 18:00 1 Suspected feeding 10 Marine drive MWDW