WDC Shorewatch Sightings 2024-2025

The WDC Shorewatch programme supports volunteer citizen scientists to monitor the presence and absence of coastal cetaceans over time by conducting effort-based watches from shore at specified local sites around Scotland. Volunteers have been carrying out Shorewatches from the Scottish Dolphin Centre in Spey Bay since 2005. In 2010, the programme began expanding to wider sites around the Scottish coastline; start date and the amount of effort varies by site. *Note that effort-based Shorewatch was put on hold between mid-March 2020 and late April 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.