Happy New Year Shorewatch Volunteers! Click here to view the Winter Shorewatch Newsletter.

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and we wish you all the best for 2023!

Last year you all achieved 10,000 Shorewatches, which is incredible! What can we achieve this year? Did you make a Shorewatch related New Year resolution? 

The Marine Forum is back! Many of you know, and have booked tickets for the Marine Forum 2022, which will be held in Glasgow on the 26th of November. The tickets are now on sale to members of the public and we expect that they will sell out quickly so please do get your tickets asap. Tickets for online streaming of the event are now also live. We are suggesting a donation to access the online streaming. We look forward to seeing you there!
 

We have added an option to circle 'no vessels seen' to the data sheet in order to confirm that there were no vessels present during a Shorewatch (rather than that the watcher did not look for vessels) and to make the data more directly comparable to the in depth vessel surveys being carried out with Emily Hague and Heriot Watt University. You can now download the most current version of the data sheet directly from the database; under the 'Record Data' menu you will find a direct link to the most up-to-date version.
 

You are now able to record ‘newborns’ separately from adults and calves on the updated 2021 Shorewatch Data Sheet! (Follow the link or download the attachement below).