A lucky orca enthusiast has captured some incredible photos of a newborn calf swimming with its mother off the coast of Scotland.
The orange-tinted baby was accompanied by four older killer whales as it played in the Moray Firth, near Duncansbayhead, Caithness.
Wildlife enthusiast Karen Munro, 44, travels around Scotland from her home in Thurso, Highlands, hoping to catch sight of the astonishing creatures.
She couldn t believe her eyes on Sunday (May 9) when they came between 10 and 20 metres of where she was standing.
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A lucky orca enthusiast has captured some incredible photos of a newborn calf swimming with its mother off the coast of Scotland
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Shortly after midnight on the first day of 2020, five paper lanterns floated over the Krefeld Zoo, in western Germany. The lanterns drifted from a nearby neighborhood, where three women had lit their wicks and watched them lift into the stars. “They even wrote their names and wishes for the new year on the lanterns,” Wolfgang Dressen, the director of the zoo, said. In the morning, the police recovered four lanterns from the trees around the ape house. They believed that the fifth landed on the roof.
Dressen and his wife were ringing in the New Year with old friends in a city called Bielefeld when he received a call, at around half past twelve, from a keeper living at the zoo. The keeper said that the ape house was in flames. Bielefeld is around a hundred and twenty miles from Krefeld, and the Dressens left immediately for home. While his wife drove, Dressen watched videos of the fire on social media. Flames engulfed the roof of the ape house. The smok
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The killer whales were seen of the Cornish coast near the Minack. Picture: Will McEnery/PA Two killer whales have been spotted off the Cornish coast in what experts believe is the first sighting this far south of the UK’s only resident population. They were spotted on Wednesday by members of Cornwall Wildlife Trust off the west coast, near the Minack Theatre. The pair, named John Coe and Aquarius, were identified by the shape and notches of their dorsal fins and patches of colouration near their eyes and on their backs. They are two of the UK’s only resident population of killer whales.
The orcas were spotted swimming off the west coast of Cornwall on Wednesday
They belong to the only UK group of killer whales usually found in the Hebrides
This is the first time in a decade killer whales have been spotted so far south
The West Coast Community can be distinguished from other groups of killer whales by their unusual sloping eye patch and larger size, experts explaned
First ever killer whales confirmed swimming off South West coastline Well today something crazy happened
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Two killer whales have been photographed swimming off the Cornish coast.
The incredible pictures were snapped by Will McEnery-Cartwright while he was enjoying refreshments at the Minack Theatre on May 5, reports Cornwall Live.