We Have Big Bottlenose Dolphins In Scotland

When you are studying dolphins all the time you can become a little complacent and it sometimes takes a visitors comments to make you remember a) how lucky you are and b) just how big these dolphins appear to be. I was very fortunate recently that my friend Sarah who runs a wildlife tour boat business Ecoventures invited me out on a series of trips up near the Cromarty Firth as my sightings had been very poor around Chanonry Point. Her sightings of local dolphins had been much better and sure enough, it wasn’t long before we encountered one of the big males and adopt a dolphin “Mischief” who came right up to the boat and he reminded me just what a huge, bulky dolphin he is comparing his size against the length and breadth of the boat I was on.

It was interesting to listen to the other passengers comments as he came right behind us and then right alongside, letting us see his possibly four metres length and five hundred kilo bulk – he certainly made quite an impression !