{"id":520454,"date":"2026-04-08T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520454\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:44:10","slug":"suspected-dolphin-spotted-in-kings-lynns-great-river-ouse-by-mother-and-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520454\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected dolphin spotted in King\u2019s Lynn\u2019s Great River Ouse by mother and daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A suspected dolphin was spotted in a river in Lynn, which surprised a mother and daughter who managed to snap a photo.<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Smith captured a video of a fin moving through the River Great Ouse yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>While rare around here, they have been seen before, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lynnnews.co.uk\/news\/it-was-so-surreal-but-so-beautiful-dolphins-spotted-in-ri-9328059\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last reported sighting being in 2023, <\/a>when it was confirmed that dolphins were in fact in the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my nine-year-old daughter who spotted it. I honestly thought she was pulling my leg,\u201d Nicola, who runs business Sizzler Barbecue Caterers, said.<\/p>\n<p>The pair spotted a fin at around 11.30am, while walking along the river on their way back from a networking group at WhataHoot distillery.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Godwin, from Lynn-based Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, believes the creature was indeed a dolphin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1022 789\" alt=\"The fin spotted in the river is believed to be a dolphin. Picture: Nicola Smith\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"TXXF47RBS828D7V21QY1.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.30\"\/>The fin spotted in the river is believed to be a dolphin. Picture: Nicola Smith<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the shape of the dorsal fin, it certainly looks more like a dolphin than a porpoise, but unfortunately, we are not best placed to identify it given the quality of the picture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough porpoises are more common in this area, dolphins have been seen in The Wash before as long as 30 years ago, and we filmed a pod off the North Norfolk coast in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat said, we are not aware of one having been seen in the Lynn river before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspected dolphin was spotted in a river in Lynn, which surprised a mother and daughter who managed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,8781,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-520454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-kings-lynn","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520454","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=520454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}