St Ives Bay Baby Bottle-nose. (1 Viewer)

Our pod of Bottle-nose Dolphins have been producing Calves and they are being shown around the Bay.

Chris Oates said:

Our pod of Bottle-nose Dolphins have been producing Calves and they are being shown around the Bay.

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Chris, I think it was you I met on the Island on Wednesday afternoon? I think one of my (very distant shots) shows a calf with it's top half out of the water. I note that the Humpback was seen again yesterday - harrumph!

Certainly was me - yesterday The Dolphins went down the coast very early and as I was there Viv Stratton finished Coastguard duty and told me the Humpback was North of the Head just frolicking and waving it's pectoral fins around.

Enviable job Viv has - he gets to seawatch with the biggest bins you've ever seen.

I've had a report of a further 4 Whales coming up past the Scillies in the last week.

Great to put a face to a name.

The Dolphin young'uns got there five minutes of fame today as they were greeted with rapture on Twitter, BBC live news, Radio Cornwall and the Facebook pages of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, British Marine Life Study Society and many more - haven't seen them for a while to pass on the news as St Ives is buzzing with holidaymakers and the trip boats are taking the route the Dolphins usually do.