{"id":348089,"date":"2026-01-02T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:43:07","slug":"wildlife-watchers-submit-5000-photos-of-yorkshire-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348089\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife watchers submit 5,000 photos of Yorkshire dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One regular contributor to the Citizen Fins project is Stuart Baines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Baines, 66, from Scarborough, is the local Sea Watch Foundation representative &#8211; a charity that monitors whales, dolphins, and porpoises &#8211; and set up the Scarborough Porpoise Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been recording them in the Yorkshire area for about 15 years and then about 10 years ago I thought I&#8217;ll set up this Facebook page and see if anyone might be interested in seeing what&#8217;s in the area,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And that&#8217;s blossomed considerably and got to more than 120,000 followers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Baines said he started noticing regular dolphin activity on his morning commute to work as a solicitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the time I worked for a firm of solicitors in Scarborough and every morning on my way to work I would drive around Marine Drive and then come back that way in the evening and jot down what I saw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And then I retired four years ago and since then, I&#8217;m becoming more involved. And I&#8217;m down down there far too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One regular contributor to the Citizen Fins project is Stuart Baines. Mr Baines, 66, from Scarborough, is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-348089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}