Caithness
Grey seal pups rescued
24th September
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On the 20th September
I was sent an email about our first sightings on the mainland up
here of 2 grey seal pups. When I saw which beach they were on I
thought that I ought to go and check them as it is quite a busy
beach when the weather is nice as it has been.
On Friday the 22nd I went for a ride out and observed the two seals
and was immediately concerned about one of them as it looked a wee
bit on the skinny side. I took photographs and emailed them to Jamie
Dyer for an expert opinion.
A boat trip had been organised the next day from the next bay for
all our medics and after the wildlife cruise a few of us went to
check on the pups.
Unfortunately there were about 20 people camping on the beach that
night including a dog which had been observed running up and down
the surf line barking at the approximately 50 adults in the water.
A quiet word in the ear hole of one of the campers assured us that
the dog had been nowhere near the pups, but after seeing photographs
later in the day from a friend, I am pretty sure the pups had both
been handled by umpteen people and harassed by the dog. Photographs
were taken of the pups again and emailed to Jamie later after the
pups had been under observation by one of the team who had volunteered
to stay there until after dark with my daughter. During the time
Kas and Karina were watching no adults came anywhere near either
of the pups, in fact the one at the far end of the beach had no
adults near it in the water even though it was calling as darkness
fell.
A couple of phone calls to Jamie later and the decision was to definitely
uplift the pup at the entrance of the beach the following day (Sunday)
as it was obviously getting weaker and further assessment of the
other pup to take place.
I rang Jim and Mandy Saturday evening giving them instructions to
meet up at the beach on Sunday at 2pm as we were definitely uplifting
one of the pups maybe both, I would know better the next day.
On Sunday Jim and Mandy met up at the beach at a prearranged time
and I joined them after picking up another seal bag and a vari kennel
from Alistair Jack. Jim had already uplifted the first pup and I
said that after another chat with Jamie and the pictures I had emailed
him, the second pup was going to be uplifted too. We all trundled
down the beach to find the second pup with quite a few sets of quad
bike tracks running round it, the poor thing was so stressed out
it was hissing and snapping at us and then instantly falling asleep
it was so exhausted. This pup was quickly gathered up and put into
a seal bag for the trip off the beach and up the dunes to where
we had left the cars.
It was very quickly transferred into another vari kennel that Mandy
had very kindly borrowed from the SSPCA and after more phone calls
to various people searching out a vehicle large enough to carry
two vari kennels we set off in convoy back to Thurso to meet Rich
(with his 7 seater van).
Jamie had very kindly sorted out the travel arrangements for us
to meet up with someone in the Inverness area and details were given
to me on the way to Thurso. We had arranged to meet Rich were had
all done the MMM 
course
just 3 weeks ago for the pups to be go south in his van. When we
arrived and met up the pups were quickly transferred into his vehicle,
a final call from Jamie gave last minute instructions and at the
time of writing this, they are 1 hour down the A9 on their way to
meet Beatrice from Ullapool who will take them on from the Falls
of Shin.
I would like to say
a big thank you to everyone who has helped out in this, our first
ever rescue. Especially to Jamie for some excellent advice over
the phone and getting the swap over arrangements made for us. To
Jim for getting out to the beach twice today. To Mandy for coming
out to the beach and getting hold of the extra kennel that we needed
and being hissed and snapped at by ‘little miss attitude’.
To Kas and Karina for sitting on a damp dune cliff top watching
the pups until after dark and getting wet while pulling it out from
under the swell trying to take it away. To Colin (seabird) for making
us aware of the campers and dog. To Rich for letting us hijack his
Sunday afternoon and driving the pups south to meet up with Beatrice.
To Beatrice who has agreed to take these two early pups and get
them back to health.
If I missed anyone
I apologise profusely, you may kick my backside later.
Paula Gent
– BDMLR Northern Scotland
‘Georgie’
the Humber Humpback whale, a personal account by
Medic Adel Sheppard
Just before 9.00 in the evening
I received at text off Alan (Stewart) about a pilot whale in King
George dock. OK, on my way not too far only in live Hornsea. I arrived
at the docks just as Joel was ringing me and gave me directions
and as I met up with him more help was arriving, we all moved on
the river side road to find the whale on its front wedged between
concrete pillars of the jetty and the slope leading down to the
river from the road.
We set up ropes, gathered towels
and sheets and buckets and headed down there, Alan, Joel, Freddie
and Ian had dry suits on so were able to make an all round assessment
and me and Catherine applied KY and water. The tide was leaving
us quickly and the whale was now totally out of the water and we
were struggling to get to the edge. Humber rescue set up a pump
but it stressed the whale so the Fire Brigade set up their pump
in the dock with a trail of hoses running down the slope to us.
Plans were put in to place and
ideas bounced around on ways to refloat as the vets on site had
said it was well enough for an attempt, although our safety came
first and with a fast moving and rising tide any attempt was going
to be very tricky.
As more experts and vets arrived it was announced that the ‘pilot’
whale was a humpback whale which was odd to even the most amateur
of us.
Alas with 4 hours till the high tide the whale nick named ‘Georgie’
died, which was heart breaking for every one involved. Although
the decision was 'Georgie`s' and we did not have to make the hardest
call of all. One last look at everyone to say goodbye and that was
it.
Vets checked it over to make sure and we all said our goodbyes back.
We all did our very best and many thanks to Humber Rescue, ABP,
Andy Smallwood and his fire crew, all the vets and all the medics
.
An amazing experience to be so
close to such a beautiful creature, and so sad to loose.
A personal account by
Adel Sheppard, BDMLR Marine Mammal Medic.
Humpback
Whale in the Humber - a personal account
September
21st-22nd September 2006
At just after nine last night (September 22nd) my
daughter Catherine and I received a message : ‘a pilot whale
trapped between The Pride Of Hull and King George Dock side –
all hands please.’ This raised two immediate questions in
our minds : the Pride of Hull sails past my window every night en
route to Rotterdam and it sails at nine, so presumably would have
already gone, and secondly, it’s too big to get into the dock
so moors at the riverside quay, so wherever the whale was, if it
was anywhere near the ferry it certainly wasn’t in the dock.
So we grabbed our things (neither of us owns a dry suit unfortunately)
and set off to see what was actually going on. Living only ten minutes
from the dock we were the amongst the first on the scene –
Joel, Freddie and Ian arrived at the same time and Alan only minutes
later – and went to the ferry terminal. Sure enough, the Pride
of Hull was sailing away up the river and there was no sign of a
whale. Whilst we were looking around and deciding where to look
next, an ABP worker arrived and showed us where the whale was :
trapped and rapidly stranding by the falling tide behind the huge
concrete jetty, in a narrow channel which was narrowing by the minute.
It was also not a Pilot but a Humpback whale, around 30 feet long,
10 tons or so and trapped in an impossibly difficult position. We
rigged up ropes so we could scramble down (and back up) the slippery
concrete slope and set about covering the whale with sheets and
keeping it wet as the tide steadily receded. Other Medics began
to arrive and as the whale was left high and dry, we continued with
the task of keeping it wet and calm. We soon realised that for some
reason we will never know, it was calmer when Catherine sat by its
head, where it could see her, stroked it and talked to it, so she
was allocated that task.
Low tide was just after midnight … we had
no chance of refloating the whale until around five in the morning,
so we settled down for the long haul. The Fire Brigade came and
were of enormous help when the tide retreated too far for us to
reach water with buckets – they simply set up a hosepipe for
us – and the Humber Rescue boat came and stood by in case
any of us got into difficulties. By 2 a.m., with the whale well
and truly high and dry, we had four vets on scene and they assessed
it, took and analysed blood samples, declared it viable and decided
against euthanasia so we began to set our refloatation plans in
action. Pontoons were already en-route - it was going to be horrendously
difficult but we were going to give it a try. All the while I had
been monitoring the whale’s respiration and I suddenly realised
that it had taken control of the situation. It simply looked at
Catherine one last time, and stopped breathing. The vets declared
it dead at 2.25 a.m.
We were all heartbroken. To be in such close contact
with such a creature is an amazing experience, and it was so sad
we couldn’t save it.
In the cold light of day we realise it was never
likely to survive : it was out of the water, on concrete, with its
full weight crushing down in it, for nearly six hours, and it simply
shouldn’t have been there in the first place : we were all
aware that there must have been something desperately wrong. The
harbourmaster also told us afterwards, when we knew that we weren’t
going to have to attempt a rescue, that he could have had to veto
it on health and safety grounds, as he was of the opinion that it
could prove far too dangerous – there was a 7 foot swell on
the river already, a 5-knot incoming 9 metre spring tide and rising
winds from the tail end of Hurricane Gordon fast approaching, all
of which would have endangered the medics: it was maybe just as
well that he was never put in the position of having to make that
call.
On a final note, it was very gratifying to see just
how many people were there giving all the help they could and although
we were unable to save this particular whale, it wasn’t for
the want of trying.
I don’t know the names of everyone who was
there but our grateful thanks go to our local coordinator Alan and
Medics Catherine, Adele, Emma, Marnie, Ian, Freddie, Joel (and Joel
jnr, who although not a medic himself did sterling work fetching
and carrying), Bev and Simon plus many other medics whose names
I don’t know, the four vets from Swanbridge Veterinary Hospital,
the Humberside Fire Brigade who saw it out till the bitter end,
Humber Rescue, representatives of the Coastguards and the Environment
Agency (sorry, I forget your names too) and of course the staff
from ABP and the harbourmaster of King George Dock. Anyone I’ve
left off – sorry, and thank you too!
Dianne Davies
: BDMLR volunteer & Marine Mammal Medic
Humpback
whale stuck against dock side dies, Humber
22nd September
BDMLR Marine Mammal Medics were called
to a most unusual and unfortunate situation at the ferry port in
the River Humber. It became stuck at Ferry Terminal No 1, the 'Rotterdam
Dock'.
A Humpback whale of approximately
8-9m (26-29ft) in length and weighing approximately 8 tons had become
wedged between the dock 'uprights' and the concrete slope leading
down from the service road. The 'Pride of Hull' ferry had at one
point been laid against the dock side trapping the whale in place.
As it was dark and the tide flowing
out, the volunteers from BDMLR (assisted by the MCA, port authority
and Humber Rescue) were unable to reach the animal until the tide
had dropped.
A local vet also attended and was
in contact with BDMLR Chief consultant vet, James Barnett. Medics
attending were Simon Drayton, Graeme Shaw and others.
The whale was provided with initial
first aid and kept wet by covering the animal with sheets and pouring
water over the animal.
The specialised pontoons which BDMLR
have are designed for animals up to 4 tons and it quickly became
apparent that it would not be possible to get the pontoons into
place under/around this animal due to its very large size.
If the animal had survived until the
return of the tide it may have been possible to pass the pontoons
under it when it was floated but this would have been an extremely
dangerous point for the volunteers.
At 2.25am (22nd Sept) the whale died.
This was not wholly unexpected due
to the well known manner in which these large species deteriorate
quickly when their bulk is not supported by water. Also, due to
the extreme location, any rescue attempt was starting at a very
difficult point indeed.
The whale carcass remained in location
last night, a small piece of blubber was removed for analysis.
Thanks to all the BDMLR volunteers
who attended and also to those organisations who assisted including;
Humber Rescue, the port authority and the MCA.
A more detailed and 'eye witness'
report will follow.....once the volunteers have recovered from their
very late night.
Tony Woodley
- BDMLR OnLine
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Medics cover the whale in wet sheets
and pour on water
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Medics provide first aid to the whale
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A BDMLR Medic checks the whales condition
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Whale dead. Showing excepetionally difficult
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Whale dead. Showing location wedged between
uprights and concrete slope
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Head of the dead whale showing baleen plates
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Humpback
whale at River Humber
21st September
BDMLR
medics are on the scene at the King George Dock in the Humber near
Hull. ( map - click HERE
)
A whale,
possibly a Minke or Pilot whale, was sighted by the crew of the
large ferry 'Pride of Hull', between the ferry and the dock side
to which the ferry was docked.
The ferry
has moved off but the whale, approximately 8m (26ft) in length,
has remained against the dock side. At this stage no further details
are available.
The conditions
and logistics are dangerous and difficult and Medics will not be
entering the water around the whale while it is dark.
Medics
are liasing with Humber Rescue, HM Coastguard and Port Authority.
More news here later.
Tony
Woodley - BDMLR OnLine
Three
for the price of one? Medics have a busy 24 hours in East Yorkshire!
15th/16th September
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It had to happen –
our Area Coordinators resign, our Local Coordinator goes off gallivanting
to dive in the Farne Islands, and we get three shouts in 24 hours!
To be fair, Alan still managed to do an excellent
job of coordinating the first two from the other end of the phone,
and it gave some very new Medics a chance to prove themselves. The
first call was to a Common Seal pup at Skipsea on the Holderness
coast : in the middle of Friday afternoon, not everyone was available
but Joel, Freddie, Adele and Marnie all made it to the site. After
assessing the situation and seeing no reason for immediate intervention,
they decided that for the time being, watch and wait was the way
to go, and sure enough, the seal got bored with all the attention
and after a couple of hours decided to make its own way back to
the sea. They never made it home, however, for the second call came
at that moment, this time to a porpoise stranded just a little further
down the coast at Withernsea, so off they went. While Alan was making
the “all hands” calls to all the other local Medics,
he got another message that the porpoise had been ‘returned’
to the sea so apart from those already on their way (and almost
there!) the call out was cancelled. After talking to the members
of the public who’d made the initial call, it seems that the
stranded animal was probably a juvenile Harbour Porpoise; they decided
to put it back into the water before help arrived so we cannot assess
its condition but it was obvious that they acted with the very best
of intentions and since there have been no further reports of stranded
or dead porpoises in the area, we can only hope that it was successful.
Saturday morning brought
a call to another seal pup, this time at Tunstall, halfway between
Friday’s two sites. 
Adele and her mother responded immediately, and I received the call
while I was out but only five miles away so I was able go straight
away and meet them there. The weather was far from ideal, foggy
and with a very rough sea and a fast-incoming tide. It wouldn’t
be long before the remaining beach disappeared under the waves so
we couldn’t ‘watch and wait’ and had to make a
reasonably quick decision. The seal was sneezing and coughing and
its breathing was visibly laboured, and it showed a total disinclination
to go back into the water – it was bone dry to the touch and
when it did attempt to escape, it moved up the beach, away from
the water! Once again a phone consultation was impossible due to
lack of mobile signal so in view of the fact that it was both underweight
and unwell we decided to take the pup in. (Photo right : the
seal pup almost ready for transport.)
Once we reached higher
ground we managed to phone and Catherine, stuck at home with no
transport (I had her car!) took over the job of coordinating veterinary
and ongoing help. She spent some considerable time on the phone
trying various contacts; Swanbridge vets agreed to treat the seal
so we headed there, and meanwhile she 
tried
to raise the RSPCA and Scarborough Seal Life Centre for help.
(Photo left :
the seal receiving veterinary assessment)
The seal weighed in at 11.5 kg and its breathing was audible and
laboured. Its eyes were very runny (not just the normal ‘wetness’
one expects of a seal’s eyes) and it sneezed frequently. The
vet took its temperature (photo left) and found it to be elevated
but not alarmingly so, and it was obviously a very sick little seal.
They were in the process of admitting it for treatment when Scarborough
Sea Life Centre contacted us and said they had room for it in their
seal hospital and could we bring it right away? We had to wait until
the rehydration fluids (which had already been started) were finished
and then Adele and I loaded the seal back up again and set off north
to Scarborough.
Sadly, all our efforts
proved to be in vain and the seal died just a few minutes short
of our destination. We continued on to the Centre nevertheless but
the seal was beyond help. The staff thanked us for our efforts (and
even gave us a free cup of tea and tour round the centre and its
wildlife rescue facilities.) On a happier note, the photos below
show some of their recent successes, restored to health, plump and
full of life and almost ready to be released.
Many thanks for all
their efforts to :
Joel & Freddie, Marnie and Adele for their sterling work running
around the beaches, Catherine for doing an excellent job of manning
the phones and sorting out all the contacts, and our coordinator
Alan who tried to get away from us but couldn’t!
Thanks also to the staff at the Swanbridge Veterinary practice for
their help and last but not least, to Scarborough Sea Life Centre.
Dianne Davies
BDMLR volunteer & Marine Mammal Medic
September 16th 2006
Photos by Dianne Davies
Lunan
Bay, Scotland - call out
12th
September
At 20.15
I received a phone call from Mel Price who had been called out,
as a Coastguard, to Lunan Bay (map)
for the reported call to a horse stuck in the foreshore sands. However,
on speaking to the first informants. Mel had been told that it was
some kind of whale in the surf, this is when Mel phoned myself.
On arrival I witnessed the Fire and Rescue leaving and the presence
of the Police and Coastguard units from Montrose and Arbroath
Reporting to the senior Coastguard Officer, SO Gladys Gregory, she
informed me that there was no trace of any animal on the beach and
they were standing down all units. I asked if there was any units
still on scene and Gladys told me that the first informants were
still with a Coastguard unit on the dunes. This gave an excellent
opportunity to question the two guys who actually saw the animal.
Without prompting, I asked what size or colouring could they make
out. One lad immediately said he thought, at one point, it was a
Jersey cow! This is when my jaw dropped! "Did it have a large
dorsal fin?", I asked. "Yeah, but it was drooped over"
he replied.
"Well you've been inordinately lucky to have seen an older
Orca feeding on a salmon run!"
From what this guy said it was obvious the animal had come upon
the salmon and taken advantage of the situation and swam up and
down the surfline in Lunan Bay feeding for a while, causing havoc
amongst several rescue services, including us!
Thanks to The Following
for standby response, Montrose Team - Elaine Roft (Area Co-ordinator)
who was organising Medics, Pontoons, vets etc, Sue Horne, Paul Horne,
Rebecca Chambers, Willie Taylor, Peter Taylor, Norman Mundie, Iain
Wallace, Fraserburgh Team for delivery of whale pontoons if needed
and Medic Support (Angi Long, Elaine Helyer, Michael Watt, who had
time to confirm standby) and to the rest of the Fraserburgh team.
Tayforth Co-ordinator Bruce McLeish for Medic Support, BDMLR Director
Mark Stevens, BDMLR Consulting Vet Cameron McPherson, Local Vet
Ian Anderson (Robson & Partners), Aberdeen Fisheries Dept, Bob
Reid (Scottish Agricultural College in Inverness).
Bob Pert
Assistant Co-ordinator
British Divers Marine Life Rescue Montrose/ Arbroath Area
BDMLR
Medics help with Swan Rescue - Eastbourne.
4th September
BDMLR
medics were called to help East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance
Service (WRAS) and the Outwood Swan Sanctuary with a swan rescue
at Decoy lake, Hampden Park, Eastbourne on Monday.
Volunteer rescuers took the unusual step of removing the four adult
swans for their own safety and to have them checked over after 6
out of 8 cygnets rescued recently from the site by WRAS died from
internal parasitic damage - leaches and worms.
A large scale operation was organised by WRAS on Monday in order
to catch the four remaining adult swans. The team of 9 volunteers
include BDMLR medics Stephen Marsh, Alison Hague, Helen Overington,
Kevin Harlow and David Rowlinson. The team used seven inflatable
boats which were used to gently encourage the swans into an enclosed
area of lake. Nets were used to block off escape routes either side
of the two islands. The operation took over 2 hours and lead to
the four adult swans - mum, dad and two of the previous years cygnets
- being relocated to Prince's Park in Eastbourne after a check over.
The swans had to remove because of the severity of the problems
which this years cygnets had suffered. Rescuers at the National
Swan Sanctuary were horrified when only two of the eight cygnets
rescued last month had survived. Rescuers had been trying to catch
the adults as they believe the lake is too unhealthy for them to
stay at and there was no easy way to establish whether they could
have been suffering too without catching them.
The internal parasite problems encountered by the cygnets, rescued
last month, is not easy to identify from just looking at the birds
and you only gain an idea as to whether they have a problem once
you have caught them. The problem is only affecting the swans as
they are 'bottom feeders' and spend alot of time sifting through
the silt and leaflitter at the bottom of the pond, the duck don't
do this as much as the swans.
This parasite problem is due to the environmental problems at the
lake which has slowly filled up with leaf litter and silt over the
years and is becoming shallower and shallower all the time. Nobody
has cleared the lake for years. In places the lake is only a couple
of inches deep with water but over 4ft of silt. As a result the
shallow water heats up during the summer which leads to these parasites
and other potentially fatal problems occurring at the lake.
East Sussex WRAS has written to Eastbourne Borough Council asking
for an investigated of the lake and for Steve Knight of the National
Swan Sanctuary to be called in by the council to investigate possible
short term ways in which the site could be made safe for the waterfowl
which reside on the lake.
East Sussex WRAS would like to thank BDMLR, the Outwood Swan Sanctuary
and the National Swan Sanctuary at Shepperton for there help, advice
and support with this rescue.
Trevor Weeks
Rescue Co-ordinator - East Sussex WRAS
National Co-ordinator - BDMLR
Common
Seal Pup Rescue Gardenstown Scotland
2nd September
11.17hrs
Dr kevin Robinson of the Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit (Gardenstown,
Banff) Called Montrose BDMLR Area Co-ordinator Elaine Roft to say
that he required assistance getting a pup relayed from the Grampian
Wildlife Trust at New Deer to SSPCA Facilities at Middlebank as
Laurence Brain was unable to retain the pup as he was on holiday.
Banff & Buchan Co-ordinator Andy Ireland & Aberdeenshire
Co-ordinator Nick Duthie had been called by the CRRU team who were
unaware that they were currently out of the area. The common seal
pup had been uplifted by the CRRU team from Gardenstown beach and
was currently at The Wildlife Trust having been treated with tetracin
to a cut on the left flipper by the CRRU team.The pup was also hyperthermic
(and was cooled off) and underweight. After 2 hours of time wasting
(Medic unavailability and contact numbers on file not recognised)
a response team was set in motion with Elaine having her team ready
and on standby and BDMLR Essex Co-ordinator Faye Archell organising
Fraserburgh Medic Availability .(This allowed Elaine's phone to
be kept clear for communications with Montrose Medics and SSPCA).
Faye confirmed that Fraserburgh Medic Stacey Easson was free to
respond. With a seal pen at Middlebank now booked by Montrose Medic
Willie Taylor and confirmed to Elaine, "Sniffy" the seals
journey began after being given lectade plus rehydration fluids
prior to commencing its journey. The second leg of the relay from
New Deer to Stonehaven was carried out by Fraserburgh Medic Stacey
Easson at 13.54hrs and she was later met by Montrose Medic and Deputy
Co-ordinator Bob Pert and Montrose Medic Willie Taylor at 
15.45hrs
with the changeover (third stage of the relay) taking place at Stonehaven
swimming pool. At 16.23hrs "Sniffy" was now in Montrose
with Bob Pert heading for Arbroath (fourth stage of relay) after
dropping off Medic Willie Taylor in Montrose en route to Arbroath.
"Sniffy" was again sprayed down with cool water to prevent
overheating and allowed a period of rest in Arbroath at 16.46hrs
before commencing its journey to the Tay Bridge in Dundee where
Tayforth Medic Michelle Penny was waiting to accompany Bob to Middlebank
(fifth stage of the relay) as the SSPCA Inspectors were unable to
resume a relay from Dundee. SSPCA staff member (Alexis) was called
at 16.48hrs and given a progress report with an ETA for arrival
(18.00 - 18.30hrs). Bob Pert called Elaine at 18.34hrs to confirm
that the pup "Sniffy" had now reached its destination
at the SSPCA facilities at Middlebank, Inverkeithing after a journey
of approximately 175+miles. The pup was given its new name "Vectra"
by the SSPCA staff based on themed names for cars and was weighed
in at 10.8kg. Reference number to follow.
stages of the relays
(1)Gardenstown
to New Deer - completed at 11.17hrs (Kevin Robinson & Team,
CRRU) pup left to rest and rehydrated and wounds tended to
(2)New Deer to Stonehaven relay - completed 13.54hrs - 15.45hrs
(Stacey Easson, Fraserburgh)
(3)Stonehaven to Montrose relay - completed 16.23hrs (Bob Pert &
Willie Taylor, Montrose)
(4)Montrose to Arbroath relay - completed 16.46hrs (Bob Pert, Montrose)
pup sprayed down to cool off and left to rest for a period
(5)Arbroath, Dundee to Inverkeithing relay - completed (Bob Pert,
Montrose / Michelle Penny, Tayforth)
Thanks to Dr kevin Robinson & Team of the Cetacean Research
& Rescue Unit Gardenstown, Banff / Laurence Brain (Grampian
Wildlife Trust) / Montrose BDMLR Medic & Co-ordinator Elaine
Roft / Montrose BDMLR Medic & Deputy Co-ordinator Bob Pert /
Essex Co-ordinator Faye Archell / Fraserburgh Medic Stacey Easson
/ Montrose Medic Willie Taylor / Tayforth BDMLR Medic & Co-ordinator
Bruce McLeish / Tayforth Medic Michelle Penny / SSPCA Central Control
/ SSPCA Middlebank
Special thanks to both Stacey Easson (Fraserburgh) and Bob Pert
(Montrose) for their fast response after 2 hours were initially
wasted tracking Medics down and to Bob Pert for his own round trip
journey of 210 miles!, also to Fraserburgh Medics Kenneth McLennan
(assistance in tracking medics down) and Linda Robertson (who was
prepared to do a relay from New Deer) for their help. Sorry you
had to stand down Linda but Stacey Easson was already en route.
"Sniffy - AKA "Vectra" at Middlebank, picture credit
Bob Pert BDMLR
Elaine
Roft
British Divers Marine Life Rescue - Montrose/Arbroath Area Co-ordinator
Northern
bottlenose whales stranding - Skegness
31st
August/1st September
Full
details - HERE
