{"id":806876,"date":"2026-10-18T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806876\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:54:09","slug":"fin-whale-feeding-off-pembrokeshire-coast-captured-by-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806876\/","title":{"rendered":"Fin whale feeding off Pembrokeshire coast captured by drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Rhys Morgan recently captured a rare aerial view of a fin whale lunge feeding in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westerntelegraph.co.uk\/news\/24470085.wild-swim-wales-swims-blue-sharks-off-pembrokeshire\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtic Deeps<\/a>, an area of deep water in the Celtic Sea southwest of Pembrokeshire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sharing the video on social media, Rhys said: &#8220;Fin whales lunge feeding in the Celtic Deeps.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to see this incredible behaviour several times on my ventures, but I&#8217;ve never managed to capture it on the drone, until last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The second largest whale species in the world making us feel just a little bit smaller out in the middle of the Celtic Deeps.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A fin whale lunge feeding in off the Pembrokeshire coast. (Image: Rhys Morgan)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The spectacular footage shows the enormous whale surging towards the surface with its mouth open to engulf huge volumes of water packed with prey, a feeding technique known as lunge feeding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fin whales are the second-largest animals on Earth after the blue whale and can grow to lengths of more than 20 metres.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While sightings are relatively rare, they are known to visit waters off west Wales and the Celtic Sea, where rich feeding grounds attract a variety of marine wildlife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rhys&#8217; footage offers a remarkable glimpse into a behaviour few people ever witness, highlighting the rich marine life found just beyond the Pembrokeshire coastline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rhys Morgan recently captured a rare aerial view of a fin whale lunge feeding in the Celtic Deeps,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-806876","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\/806876","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=806876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}