Dolphin megapod off Northwest Scotland - Video

The Mega-Pod returns!
Nick Davies of Hebridean Whale Cruises writes about his recent encounter with a dolphin megapod 

July 2010. On a recent the whale watching trip from Gairloch we bumped into at least 1000 Short-beaked Common Dolphins again. What seemed like the whole of the sea for five square miles was alive with Dolphins!

All our passengers were clicking away with their cameras and were absolutely gob-smacked by what they were witnessing as this rarely happens in U.K. waters. Here's the video I shot...

There was so much mixed behaviour I think I was just in the right place at the right time. We left the dolphins to go and see the whales about another four miles out, and when we passed the same location on the way back I could still see huge pods to the north and south so the mega pod had fragmented. This was confirmed by a later sighting that only encountered a meagre 300!

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