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 6, 2022 16:40 1 Swimming 5 5m off Port Erin Faye Devlin
June 3, 2022 11:05 1 Swimming 1 Half a mile west of Spanish Head Malcolm Stewart
June 2, 2022 15:20 1 Swimming 1 Off Jurby head Malcolm Stewart
May 29, 2022 12:00 1 Suspected feeding 5 East of the Sound MWDW
May 26, 2022 13:40 1 Swimming 15 Peel Castle Eric Holmes, Oliver & Sarah Middleton
May 24, 2022 18:00 1 Swimming 30 Port Erin bay Elizabeth Lawton
May 14, 2022 17:50 1 1 Suspected feeding 5 The Chasms Alessia
May 7, 2022 14:00 1 Suspected feeding 45 300m east of the Calf of Man Caroline & Phil Roriston and David
May 3, 2022 14:45 1 Suspected feeding 10 Port Erin
May 1, 2022 12:00 1 Suspected feeding 10 Dalby Richard Marks
April 29, 2022 17:00 1 Suspected feeding 15 Eary Cushlin Nicola