NEWS SHEET SEPTEMBER 2006
Editorial
Welcome to the September 2006 issue of the Sea Watch Foundation newssheet, covering August and September. In this issue we have a special report on this year’s National Whale and Dolphin Watch week, and some very exciting sightings to report, including a rare sei whale off Wester Ross. The winter nights might be drawing in but there is still a lot happening round our coastline, so pull on your woolly hats and gloves, and please do keep those sightings coming in. Many thanks to all our contributors to this rather Sei whale photographed off Wester Ross on 16th September by Nick Davies bumper issue! As a l w a y s , y o u r contributions to the New look website! news sheet are very welcome, so please send them (and Check it out at http://www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk/ photos!) to me at
The Sea Watch Foundation is very proud to announce our new website, created by [email protected]. Anna Winsom of Vision Internet. The new site has been completely re-designed, but has much additional material including: Happy seawatching, Lori • a new more versatile online sightings form that hopefully people will find easy to fill in • a much expanded section on species identification including photos, video clips and sound recordings • cetacean distribution maps - general and monthly • many more publications available as downloads • various fact sheets on species, threats and regional cetacean faunas • more details on volunteering, Masters & PhD projects • reports on past National Whale & Dolphin Watch Events plus dates for next year
Plus you can now download the news sheets directly!
We hope you will also find it easier to navigate around. There are still some more things we want to add to the web site over the coming months. These include: thumbnails of sections of our marine photo library, further updated and enlarged fact sheets, and regional status summaries.