Dolphins in the Firth of Forth (1 Viewer)

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Gander

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• Oct 8, 2017

• #1

There was quiet a bit of dolphin activity out on the Firth of Forth this afternoon. I grabbed a few shots, but only when looking at them on the computer have I realised on of the dolphins seems to be lying across the back of another.

It seems to be much lighter a shade than the others. I am guessing they are Bottle Nosed? Is the one getting a piggy back a calf do you think?

 

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Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

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• Oct 8, 2017

• #2

Certainly Bottlenose Dolphins and I think I agree that there's a calf riding with its mother.

 

Mark Lew1s

My real name is Mark Lewis

• Oct 10, 2017

• #3

I agree there's a calf - but is it not just surfacing next to the adult, rather than on top of it? This is the classic 'set up' for a mother surfacing with a calf, with the calf's head roughly level with the mothers dorsal fin.

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Oct 10, 2017

• #4

That duck (lower right) doesn't look too well pleased - are Bottlenose Dolphins any threat to birds? I've heard of Orca taking seabirds occasionally, but not other dolphins.

 

Mark Lew1s

My real name is Mark Lewis

• Oct 10, 2017

• #5

Nutcracker said:

That duck (lower right) doesn't look too well pleased - are Bottlenose Dolphins any threat to birds? I've heard of Orca taking seabirds occasionally, but not other dolphins.

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Perhaps it’s miffed at being called a duck?

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Oct 10, 2017

• #6

Fat Paul Scholes said:

Perhaps it’s miffed at being called a duck?

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Ooops! Yeah, didn't look too closely 3