We have broken this guide up into key areas each of which have been featured on different pages.

Page 1- This page, gives you general information to assist you in your efforts.
Page 2- A guide to visual identification.
Page 3- Practical Tips on watching the dolphins.
Page 4- A brief guide to the best locations on the Firth for spotting the dolphins.
Page 5- Details on watching form a boat and of the friends own boat 'Delphis'

We have also included a special page which contains a 'Cetacean Sighting Record', we hope you will visit this page, print off this form with its instructions and then fill it in when you start your dolphin watch... becoming active in the studies taking place.

The bottlenose dolphin is the most familiar to all the cetaceans, and is resident all year round in the Moray Firth. Other locations around the UK, including off the Cornish coast, the west coast of Scotland and the Shetland Islands are now being found to be good areas for dolphin watching.
In the Moray Firth we have the opportunity to see the dolphins sharing the water with the smaller harbour porpoises and other species from time to time, including, minke whales, white sided dolphins and even orcas.

We hope this guide helps you to see and recognise some or all of these stunning creatures.

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