CJW Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Well I've seen them twice personally ,once off the West coast (100+) and once off the East coast (50+) maybe I was Hallucinating? Sounds like it. Or more likely you made a mistake with the identification - identification of cetaceans is very difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 No typo! the frickin things migrate down past our coastline en -masse every year ! En-masse??? No they don't. There's less than ½ dozen reliable records each year of Bottle-nosed Dolphin and the same number for Risso's Dolphin. The common cetacean in Manx waters is Harbour Porpoise. Large pods of Dolphins are spotted off the coast of the Island every year but not as close to shore as this pod Please S.T.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Well I've seen them twice personally ,once off the West coast (100+) and once off the East coast (50+) maybe I was Hallucinating? Sounds like it. Or more likely you made a mistake with the identification - identification of cetaceans is very difficult. Please enlighten me oh knowledgable one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee54 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJW Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Please S.T.S. I don't know what this means. Obviously not so much the "Knowledgable one" am I? Please enlighten me oh knowledgable one? Well, there are several species of dolphin that have been, or have the potential to be, recorded in the Irish Sea - Common, Bottle-nosed, White-sided, White-beaked and Risso's to name but a few. Then there's the really much more common Harbour Porpoise. Can you definitely say which of these species you have seen? If so, what criteria did you use for identifying them? I'm afraid I cannot enlighten you any more than to point out the potential ID pitfall species. Let's not forget that 90% of these animals' features remain submerged for long periods of time thus making seeing the relevent ID criteria difficult (to put it mildly). So to conclude, unless you're a very experienced cetacean ID expert, I'm afraid your records will be viewed as anecdotal at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Forgive me if I am wrong on this C.J.W. but your post reads like just the sort the sort of thing you would expect from a Uni educated smartass who's see seen plenty of videos ,read plenty of books but seen little of the actual event , due to the fact that they are sitting in their centrally heated office drinking coffee drawing up graphs for the stupid people! Let me reiterate for you ! There is a migration of Dolphins Down the coast of the Isle of Man every year in a North-South direction ! Oh yea! one more thing the S.T.S. was not aimed at you but Lee 54! But just so you don't feel left out heres one for you Please C.J.W. will you S.T.S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee54 Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Oh yea! one more thing the S.T.S. was not aimed at you but Lee 54! But just so you don't feel left out heres one for you Please C.J.W. will you S.T.S Pardon, STS ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 RTFQ you MF`s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanna Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I think the count is highly suspicious. Its very very easy to over count dolphins as they rarely all break the surface at the same time. I took about an hour to accurately count a total of 7 (bigger and slower) rissos dolphin earlier in the year. Ive emailed the sighting to one of the top uks dolphin experts to see what she makes of it. Ie is 150 bottle nosed an actual possibility in the irish sea for a start off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homarus Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Maybe you need to improve your maths ? An hour to count seven dolphins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portunus69 Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 A little off the Subject but a certain someone turned the ripe old age of 26 today need I mention...ay homarus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJW Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Forgive me if I am wrong on this C.J.W. but your post reads like just the sort the sort of thing you would expect from a Uni educated smartass who's see seen plenty of videos ,read plenty of books but seen little of the actual event , due to the fact that they are sitting in their centrally heated office drinking coffee drawing up graphs for the stupid people! Yes, you're (very) wrong but also forgiven. It's just a shame that you had to jump to that conclusion- especially as it was you who asked me to enlighten you. Well I tried, but perhaps the terms I used could have been put into a more layman-like format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanna Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 well it seems this record is poo as first thought. the uk dolphin expert replied and said 150 bottled nosed is the entire irish sea population. The chances of them all having a big party in douglas bay is a near impossibility. She thinks either its been very poor counting or it was a big group of common dolphin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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