A few dolpin pictures, bet you haven't seen this

On the hunt

Pushed the fish up on the bank. Yummy

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Rare event there, strand feeding where the dolphin chase the fish up on the banks.

I throw in a couple more

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Bird

Bird "oh no"

Wait a minute these guys bring me fish, nice.

Not to be mean but

these picture are copy righted by me and are not to be used by anyone for anything unless you have an agreement with me. Written not verbal.

Just saying.

oh yeah isnt this like, one of the only places that they behave like that??

Yes it is. National Geographic stuff.

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Super great photos!

First time we saw that was at Kiawah about 25 years ago. It blew us away and we were amazed when we found out the SC/GA coast is one of the few places where that behavior occurs. We see it in the creeks around here as the tide is going out; the dolphins trap the minnows and mullet and then toss them up on the mudbanks with their filppers. One of my neighbors took photos but yours are better.

You know what's funny? I was talking to the GM of the Disney property one night and he said that he had women complaining about the dolphins making to much niose and she wanted a free night or two. LOL. If I could predict where and when that would happen I could probably sell tickets for a decent amount of money.

Core,

Those are some great shots! I like the one where the heron has the fish in its beak. I've seen dolphins do this too on HHI, and I always thought it was strange.

About the women complaining and wanting a free night.....it amazes me what some people will complain about to get a free "anything". I would have told them, you're in HHI, there is nature here. You are the visitor. Sheesh!

LOL, I was out in the yard one day and kept hearing phfffft, phffft noises. The tide was high and I could see the creek clearly and sure enough there was a pod fishing.

Dolphins are such neat animals. One day when we were out in the boat we came across 2 adults and a baby who appeared to be dead. It was floating upside down and one of the adults kept trying to turn it over and move it upriver. The other adult, I am assuming it was the male, kept swimming over towards our boat. We could never figure out if he wanted us to help or go away. We called DNR but never heard the outcome.

Great pics, Core! I think this may occur more frequently than National Geographic imagines. I've seen it at dozens of sites around here---Bass and Green creek around Kiawah, an unknown creek around Snake Island across the Stono from Kiawah, in an unknown creek that goes up past the James Island County Park, in Potato Shed Creek (aka, Snag Creek) further up the Stono, and even on the Stono its ownself...directly across from my dock. Couldn't believe what I was seeing---had to run get my binoculars. They seem to use two techniques; batter the hell out of them with their tails/bodies in deeper water, leaving them no place to go but ashore, where they devour them. Seems pretty effective. Mostly, they seem to pick on mullet, but I've seen huge schools of Whiting devastated with this technique. Think it might be based more on schooling behavior/shoreline proximity/makeup than prey. They have never forced a school of anything up on a shoreline riddled with oyster banks that I've seen. It's always on banks of pluff mudd. Fascinating creatures are these dolphins!

Those are great pics. Though every time I see the icon on the forum homepage I think it's another sighting of Nessie. LOL

Well Stono strand feeding isn't rare around here but it is for how many places in the world that it happens. You still have to spend a good amount of time on or near the water in the right places to see it but no it's not that hard to find the dolphins doing this. It does have to be mud flats, they don't like any thing sharp in their way.