Dead whale washed up on our beach.

This is so sad, a Baleen Whale was washed up on our beach in the early hours of yesterday morning. There have been a series of  ‘Whale incidents’ on this stretch of coastline over the last couple of weeks. After looking at the numbers of whales beached on North Sea coasts scientists have suggested that surges of solar activity may cause whales to run aground. A higher number of  whale strandings have been recorded when the sun's activity is high and there was  a large solar flare, captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory, at 8.36pm on August 31.

From ‘The Courier’


‘’Earlier this month, 17 whales, including three calves, died after a 27-strong pod beached on rocks between Pittenweem and Anstruther.

A second group of 24 pilot whales, thought to be from the same pod, was spotted in shallow water near Cellardyke but they later dispersed.

Attempts to rescue a minke whale, caught in netting off the Angus coast, near the Bell Rock Lighthouse, also ended in failure on the same weekend.

The latest dead whale was discovered by a passer-by on the beach at Elliot, Arbroath, around 8.30am on Friday’’.

Full story here

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Angus/article/24930/more-questions-after-40ft-whale-washes-up-at-arbroath.html