{"id":5045,"date":"2016-07-22T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2016-08-30T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:47:58","slug":"orca-spotting-in-lerwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2016\/07\/22\/orca-spotting-in-lerwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Orca spotting in Lerwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5402\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Orca1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5402\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5402 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Orca1-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Orca and calf\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/186;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orca and calf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the many advantages of working in one of our coastal fishery offices is the opportunity to not only be surrounded by beautiful scenery and to live in wonderful coastal communities, but to see things that are a little unusual and, quite literally, breath taking.<\/p>\n<p>Two of our &#8211; very excited &#8211; fishery offices from Lerwick had the opportunity to see some orcas (<em>Orcinus orca<\/em>) and their calves\u00a0playing in the water near their office. One managed to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marinescotland\/albums\/72157670625938402\">some photographs<\/a>\u00a0while the other managed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aS-MW9A9EWY\">capture\u00a0some video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a known pod of older orcas on the west coast, but other orcas come in to Scottish waters as visitors from Iceland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marinescotland\/albums\/72157670625938402\">Check out the photographs on Flickr<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aS-MW9A9EWY\">Watching the video of the orcas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/marine\/Compliance\">Marine Scotland Compliance, including coastal fishery offices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killer_whale\">More information about orcas<\/a> (<em>Orcinus orca<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many advantages of working in one of our coastal fishery offices is the opportunity to not only be surrounded by beautiful scenery and to live in wonderful coastal communities, but to see things that are a little unusual and, quite literally, breath taking. 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