{"id":705635,"date":"2026-07-22T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705635\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:43:08","slug":"locals-urged-to-join-dolphin-watches-on-north-norfolk-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705635\/","title":{"rendered":"Locals urged to join dolphin watches on north Norfolk coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Running from Saturday, July 25, to Sunday, August 2, the campaign aims to build a clearer picture of how often whales and dolphins visit local waters. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Though bottlenose dolphins are still a rare sight off north Norfolk, a pod of\u00a0eight to 10 was photographed just 400 metres off East Runton on August\u00a014 last year by Sheringham photographer Chris Taylor.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Resident pods are more commonly associated with Cardigan Bay in Wales, the Moray Firth in Scotland, and the south coast of England and Yorkshire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The mammals were previously photographed just 400 metres off East Runton (Image: Chris Taylor)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Norfolk regional coordinator for the Sea Watch Foundation, Di Westwood, will be at the Marine Event at West Runton on July 28, encouraging people to set up their own watches along the coast.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Coordinators hope that more local eyes on the sea this summer will show whether Norfolk\u2019s occasional visitors are becoming more frequent.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Simple instructions on how to take part and\u00a0submit\u00a0sightings are available on the charity\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Running from Saturday, July 25, to Sunday, August 2, the campaign aims to build a clearer picture of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-705635","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\/705635","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=705635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}