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Simon West

@simonwest26.bsky.social

Bottlenosed Dolphins
- Torry Battery (Aberdeen) 2/10/26 #cetacens #ukmammals #ukdolphins #ukwildlife @marinemammalogy.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social

October 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Charlie mamma

@charliemamma2.bsky.social

The horrors of #taiji means it's a green cove!
8 bottlenosed have been taken for further inspection, and the 2nd part of the fair sized pod are now in the inner nets.
Please spread the word about this, and don't fund these hunts by purchasing a ticket to a dolphin show.

September 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM

Dirty Druid

@dirtydruid.bsky.social

They were both bottlenosed dolphins.

September 23, 2026 at 2:15 AM

walter innes

@walterjsinnes.bsky.social

as we call that, when the bottlenosed dolphins do this -
'saw-blade ' formation....

September 17, 2026 at 7:43 AM

Ross Trevelyan 🗻🌲🦪🦀🚵‍♂️

@jumpintraxjack.bsky.social

#WIPSnips: dark

Conall, Aibreán, & Rebecca Fawcett are holed up in the booley hut for a stormy night. There's talk of ghost stories, and Rebecca encourages Aibreán to tell one for her first time. And she indeed knows of a fright.

vocab: crúiscín /'kroosh-keen/ (Ir) = jug; corbie = raven (Scots).

Maguire returned to the booley hut feigning drama, hands behind his back.
“The Raven’s wing cast its shadow, so it has. I seen a flash o’er the bog—a will-o’-the-wisp, sure, lookin to work mischief this night.”
He set a crúiscín and a tin cup beside the fire pit.
“Me spirit needs a wee jostle. Willin to pour for whosomever could use the same.”
“Och, that hellbrew ne’er onced crossed these lips.” Rebecca’s voice oozed self-righteousness. “Oul’ Robert Fawcett—he staggered down the bottlenosed bogtrotter’s path, so he did. And Nancy Whiskey, with her claws like the Divil’s mistress, dragged him straight doon the Gates o’ Hell, leavin nayther penny nor prayer to mark his passin.”
Aibreán motioned to the crock. “Yours?”
“Donie’s. Made from the finest barley ever growed in the Poisoned Glen.”
“Give us an eggshell.”
Rebecca coughed. “Laydin the child till perdition.”
“Half,” he said. He looked up at the old woman.
“’Tis a God-given gift, a moment’s escape from life’s pains and torments. Take too much, the liquor confisticates ye. The story o’ Noah and his wine instructs us thus.”
His gaze shifted to Aibreán. “Seventeen year and ne’er had a taste? Yet ye know the catechiz.”
Conall poured her half a gill. She downed it and held out the cup.
“Give us another lash.”
“Aisy, now. Don’t want ye crawsick.”
Conall dribbled out less than a quarter, which she drank. He did the same for himself and gulped it.
Aibreán sat with her hands cupping her elbows.
“All right, then,” she said. “I’ll tell yez of a lass from Maghera—Mary O’Curran her name, all lovely and nigh on a growed woman was she, with the motherly glow in her cheeks and the fullness of her breast.”

The redhaired-girl waved a hand in front of her chest.
“I admired her for ’t.”
She filled her lungs.
“Then fell the darkest o’ nights, and she comin home from kelpin on the strand.”
Aibreán paused and made eye contact, her face becoming severe.
“But ne’er did poor Mary sit in at her mam and da’s hearth again. Now, divil a thing did a body see, mind ye, but a cunnin woman said ’twas a bloodthirsty wraith what come through at All Hallows catched her.”
She made a snatching motion with fingers curled like claws.
“A wicked craythur from the dark side o’ midnight come watchin for the unwary, listenin for the unguarded tongue. Some say ’tis but a shapeless shadow; others say ’tis a white form lookin like a man with no face. Me da seen its craft and named it at his peril.”
“Whisht,” Conall said. “Ye daresn’t.”
Rebecca’s eyes widened. “The selfsame baist crawls up from the nethermost pit o’ Hell. So’s not tae spake its true name, our folk whisper ’bout the Headless Horseman.”
Maguire pulled himself up straight. “Och, thought ’twas himself at the door last night, sure.”
“The Horseman casts ne’er a shadow,” the old woman said. “And me grandda called its steed a kelpie, a nuckelavee what shrieks a bloodcurdlin screaagh! as o’er the land it gallops, the masther upon its back. And above, aye, flap the fell wings of a great muckle-black corbie as he hunts careless lasses for their maiden blood. And beware: should your eyes chance to meet his, with a whip o’ men’s chine bones will he crack ’em out.”
Conall stirred the fire.
“No plain shadow, so,” he said. “And a mount the color o’ jet, a bat-winged courser, beautiful to the mortal eye, some say, with a mane flowin same as kelp from the deeps o’ the sea. Lurkin in bottomless waters in the day. Our folks say ye’ll know the wattherhorse from its tarry, dead eyes, and the man who meets its masther—‍”

Aibreán raised a finger. “Ne’er lives to tell of it.”
“Aye, ’tis a wicked thing indeed,” Rebecca said.
Aibreán kept her voice low and looked around the hut. “I’m fain to blieve the closeness of our tales avouch its existence.”
Conall gave a firm nod.
“’Twas the night o’ the new moon, a black night indeed, when Mary up and vanished. With ne’er the faintest glimmer in the heavens did we search the parish over.”
Aibreán looked at Conall, then Rebecca.
“All in vain. Peddlers found her corpse afther a fortnight. Da and Cormac O’Friel digged her grave whilst Ma and Missus prepared Mary’s mortal remains.”
Aibreán shuddered, covering her face.
“And afther seein what the monsther done, they kept her body from view—wouldn’t let nobody see it, not even her own sisthers.”
Rebecca gasped. “Och, ye’re doin grand, lassie.”
“The four come in quiet as cat-stricken mice, spakin in whispers—and shot straight for the drink—which they never done. I lay abed and heard the talk. What they seen shook ’em to the pit o’ their souls.”
Aibreán arched a thin red eyebrow. “Will I tell ye what it done to her?”

August 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM

Embron

@embroncaniston.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Gila Monster
Grizzly Bear
Green Sea Turtle
Bottlenosed Dolphins
Twinspotted Rattlesnake

🐾Obscura, Cheetah🐾 @cheetahobscura.chee.spot · Nov 29

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:

Takahe
Pukeko
Weka
Tui
Bellbird

Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · Nov 29

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:

Moose
White Tailed Deer
Lemon Shark
Humpback Whale
Black Bear

November 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM

Henry, Emperor of the Moon 🌙

@henryisreal.bsky.social

The wife is at it again. Now it’s reels about how a Florida contractor was kidnapped by bottlenosed dolphins and forced to do undersea construction for them and once he was released and told his story Dolphins have been washing up on shore because the US is in a clandestine war with them
#conspiracy

a dolphin is swimming in the water with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

ALT: a dolphin is swimming in the water with its mouth open and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

March 27, 2026 at 3:17 PM

SP

@spvejer.bsky.social

So thanks to @paulbagguley.bsky.social can confirm that we saw at least 6 bottlenosed dolphins for over 20 mins in the Tees estuary this lunchtime. Plus countless terns, loads of guillemots and probably over 100 seals hauled up on seal sands. We got a great view of the female smew at Saltholme too.

July 29, 2026 at 7:01 PM

@OldAndCranky

@oldandcranky.bsky.social

Many! It wasn't the best watch I've been on, but we did see Fin whales (second largest animal on planet) many Humpback whales, Minke whales, and a delightful pod of Off Shore Bottlenosed Dolphins who played in the wake of the boat and were very silly. The pic I posted is of a Humpback feeding.

September 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Jesse Locker

@jessemlocker.bsky.social

Sea creatures by Italian artist Giorgio Liberale, for an illustrated edition of Dioscurides' "Materia medica," 1558 (Cod. ser. n. 2669, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna)

Giorgio Liberale, Bottlenosed skate, 1558, Parchment, 640 x 870 mm (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna)

Common octopus
1558
Parchment, 640 x 870 mm
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

Mediterranean lobster
1558
Parchment, 640 x 870 mm
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

Garfish, garpike, sea horses, red bandfish and pipefishes
1558
Parchment, 640 x 870 mm
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

June 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM

Lana Winter

@lana-winter.bsky.social

Dolphin yoga ad seen on Spadina Ave. Zoomed in reads “*We are not responsible for the actions of any amorous behaviour of any of our dolphins. Please be aware of their reputation”
#torontophotography #streetphotography #dolphinyoga #yoga #fujifilm #satire #toronto #chinatown #fujix

Zoomed in fine print for the previous photo/ad reveals: “* We are not responsible for the actions of any amorous behaviour of any of our dolphins. Please be aware of their reputation”

August 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM

Salty_old_sailor

@dirkfitch.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Racoon
Opossum
Marmoset
Bottlenosed dolphin
Leopard seal

Lt. Uhura @ltuhura.bsky.social · Nov 29

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Squirrel
Rainbow trout
Pigeon
Prairie dog
Mink

Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · Nov 29

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Spotted salamander
Eastern newt
Red-backed salamander
Jefferson salamander
Two-lined salamander

November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM

Barra & Vatersay Outdoor Ranger Service

@barraranger.bsky.social

Fantastic walk on Vatersay last night. A distant perched Golden Eagle, bottlenosed dolphins, 3 species of Jellyfish, a calling corncrake, frog orchids, and a host of machair plants. The pinnicle was 3 short-eared owls. To see 1 short-eared owl is rare enough!
There will be a walk next week.

July 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM

Andy Birding

@andybirding.bsky.social

Nairn West Beach this morning. 7 Whimbrel, 72 Redshank, 2 Turnstone, 3 Curlew, 8 Sandwich Tern, 42 Bar-tailed Godwit, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 oystercatcher, 4 Ring Plover. #ukbirds #nairnbirds #highlandsbirds also 12 bottlenosed dolphin #cetateans

August 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM

Nature is Amazing 🌱🌲

@natureisamazing5.bsky.social

Wildlife biologist Angela Ziltener from the University of Zurich noticed Indo-Pacific bottlenosed dolphins participating in interesting behavior where dolphins would take turns brushing their bodies against sea sponges or corals along the sea floor. Ziltener followed their pods for more than a decad

September 17, 2024 at 3:08 AM

Cosgrove_Outdoors

@dermotncosgrove.bsky.social

Reminded in the documentary that Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, better known as Dusty Springfield loved her ancestral of West Clare so much that she wanted her ashes scattered into the sea there, a little while later a young lone female Bottlenosed Dolphin showed up who became Dusty

Cosgrove_Outdoors @dermotncosgrove.bsky.social · Aug 31

For the Irish people, my old pal Ken O’Sullivan will be airing the first episode of his new documentary
“Dolphins: Wonders of the Ocean”
this evening at 6.30pm.
This is Ken’s 3rd documentary on the fantastic sea life off out coasts which he highlights in a hope of increased protection for our seas.

August 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Cosgrove_Outdoors

@dermotncosgrove.bsky.social

#TimelineCleanse #Ireland #WildAtlanticWay #IrishWildlife #IrishNature
1. Bottlenosed Dolphin
2. Red Deer
3. Raven
4. Irish Hare

November 17, 2024 at 9:26 AM

Andrew

@andrewmichael.bsky.social

If I ever hear someone call terciops truncatus something as pedestrian as a "bottlenosed dolphin" again I swear to God... 😤

April 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM

Mark C Stevens

@thormark.bsky.social

Leaping Archs and Glistening Drops Follow Each Dolphin #TenThousandIslandsNationalWildlifeRefuge #NikonZ8 #Florida #Dolphin flic.kr/p/2skLsUB

Leaping Archs and Glistening Drops Follow Each Dolphin

I captured this image as part of a set of an Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphin in the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge. I was using my new Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera with a NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f...

flic.kr

June 26, 2026 at 1:35 AM

chrisblbirds.bsky.social

@chrisblbirds.bsky.social

@teesbirds.bsky.social Hartlepool 10.00 to 11.20. 6 Arctic Skuas. C. 20 Manxies and Gannets feeding and 5 Bottlenosed Dolphins south at 10.45. 2 Whimbrel in off and then south

July 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM

Jules Rivera

@lovejoolz.bsky.social

So I went to the Inland Empire Zine fest yesterday and one of the attendees gave me a tiny jar of Play-Doh.

Zine fests are amazing.

Wide shot of a moderately sized indoor zone fest. Many attendees are walking around, looking at artists tables filled with different mini books. There are green lights running down the wall, and shiny lights in the back. It’s a very fun time.

Hand holding a Play Doh Bottlenosed dolphin. It’s magenta. There are many snacks, papers, and zines scattered on the table behind the hand in the photo. There are also a few bags of assorted items below the table.

March 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM

Ben Goldfarb

@bengoldfarb.bsky.social

"Warning signs are beginning to be observed in marine ecosystems planetwide, from herring and zooplankton in the North Sea, to sardines and bottlenosed dolphins in the Southern Ocean."

Worrying story on phenological mismatch in our oceans, via @yalee360.bsky.social.

e360.yale.edu/features/oce...