{"id":785218,"date":"2026-09-28T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:26:09","slug":"bumper-year-for-whale-and-dolphin-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785218\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bumper year&#8217; for whale and dolphin sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are so many people that have said to me, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;ve never seen anything,&#8217; but they&#8217;re not looking,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important to actually spend a bit of time stopping and actually staring out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her top tip is to watch the birds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we see a load of gannets diving, then it could be an indicator to us that there&#8217;s going to be some dolphin fins popping up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sightings can be reported to the charity by phone, on Facebook, through its live Telegram group, or on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The island&#8217;s resident dolphin pair, Moonlight and Starlight, are also still being seen regularly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moonlight came from Scotland seven years ago to give birth to Starlight and the two keep almost entirely to themselves, rarely mixing with other pods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also come unusually close to shore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen them within two metres of Peel promenade when it was high tide,&#8221; Adams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;There are so many people that have said to me, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;ve never seen anything,&#8217; but they&#8217;re not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-785218","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\/785218","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=785218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}