Did anybody see any wildlife around the coutry last weekend?
I came across 5 basking sharks in the area of Melmore Head in Donegal. Locals say there were about 14 seen on th Saturday.
Baskers
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I saw two on the north side of Inishtrahull on Saturday evening. My first time to see a basking shark and paddled alongside it for about four minutes. The other one was a lot bigger but dived as the other paddlers approached it. If it\'s wildlife your after, my two paddling partners spotted the four remaining deer on Inishtrahull early on Sunday morning.
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ciarancarthy
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Cool. I also saw two deer running alng the beach on InishBoffin, Donegal.
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seanosullivan
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A lot of Baskers in the Old Head of Kinsale area at the moment as well. Great to see!
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more on the shark infested waters of donegal on RTE1 this am about 8:45 by a Dr Simon Berrow. Found it later on their website, not sure if or how long the link will work but I\'ll have go...
http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/
or http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/b ... harks.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/
or http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/b ... harks.html
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Oileain never rests.
Oileain is always listening, watching, absorbing, using.
All this Malin stuff this week is no exception.
I have no access to uploading capacity this last while for a technological reason (I gave away the PC the technology was embedded in), but the softcopy is always expanding.
Almost boringly I pay tribute as always to Sean Pierce, that hyperactive adult of DNS.
The current input for the Hull includes -
In 1994, a herd of 5 Sika deer was brought onto the island, and 4 now remain as of May 2010, all does. They are very shy, and very efficient at keeping out of the way. It is more than possible for a small party never to find them on a visit. In summer 2001, a huge party of 200 or so visited the island for a commemoration. The deer could not evade so many forever, took flight, jumped into the sea, and swam for it. Fortunately, they were spotted leaving by some scuba divers walking about the island. A rescue mission was mounted. By the time they were found, they were two thirds the way to Malin Head. In the rescue efforts, unfortunately one drowned, the only stag. The remaining four were saved, and were returned at very high speed to the Hull. A good news story emanating from Ireland’s scuba people!
In 2009 it became apparent to Ireland’s conservators of whales and dolphins that this general Malin area was a hot-spot for Basking Shark (which actually are fish), and many of the 100+ tagged to try and find out where they go in winter were encountered near the island. Then in 2010 there was an explosion of population and in a calm weather week in May, 104 were tagged in a frenzy of activity. Simon Berrow became a household name overnight. This shy and elusive species may yet yield up, to technology, a ton of knowledge of its darkest secrets.
Oileain says thank you, good job, everyone.
DWalsh
Oileain is always listening, watching, absorbing, using.
All this Malin stuff this week is no exception.
I have no access to uploading capacity this last while for a technological reason (I gave away the PC the technology was embedded in), but the softcopy is always expanding.
Almost boringly I pay tribute as always to Sean Pierce, that hyperactive adult of DNS.
The current input for the Hull includes -
In 1994, a herd of 5 Sika deer was brought onto the island, and 4 now remain as of May 2010, all does. They are very shy, and very efficient at keeping out of the way. It is more than possible for a small party never to find them on a visit. In summer 2001, a huge party of 200 or so visited the island for a commemoration. The deer could not evade so many forever, took flight, jumped into the sea, and swam for it. Fortunately, they were spotted leaving by some scuba divers walking about the island. A rescue mission was mounted. By the time they were found, they were two thirds the way to Malin Head. In the rescue efforts, unfortunately one drowned, the only stag. The remaining four were saved, and were returned at very high speed to the Hull. A good news story emanating from Ireland’s scuba people!
In 2009 it became apparent to Ireland’s conservators of whales and dolphins that this general Malin area was a hot-spot for Basking Shark (which actually are fish), and many of the 100+ tagged to try and find out where they go in winter were encountered near the island. Then in 2010 there was an explosion of population and in a calm weather week in May, 104 were tagged in a frenzy of activity. Simon Berrow became a household name overnight. This shy and elusive species may yet yield up, to technology, a ton of knowledge of its darkest secrets.
Oileain says thank you, good job, everyone.
DWalsh
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johnbrophy
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I\'d say that\'s the first time Simon Berrow has been called shy and elusive...
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surely the reference must be to dave walsh....
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The IWDG have tagged almost 120 basking sharks so far this year, and as sea kayakers can get closer to these fish than most observers, we can make a major contribution to monitoring their movements .
So if you are lucky enough to get close and personal to one look out for a tag.
Sharks in Donegal were tagged with a white & yellow tag, Kerry ones with a green tag and Cork ones wear red, as you\'d expect, boy.
Please report any sightings to the IWDG.
Lots more on http://iwdg.ie/article.asp?id=2376
Thanks
Conal
So if you are lucky enough to get close and personal to one look out for a tag.
Sharks in Donegal were tagged with a white & yellow tag, Kerry ones with a green tag and Cork ones wear red, as you\'d expect, boy.
Please report any sightings to the IWDG.
Lots more on http://iwdg.ie/article.asp?id=2376
Thanks
Conal