The WDC Shorewatch Programme supports volunteer citizen scientists to monitor the presence and absence of coastal cetaceans over time by conducting effort-based watches from shore at specified local sites around Scotland. Volunteers have been carrying out Shorewatches from the Scottish Dolphin Centre in Spey Bay since 2005, and consistently from sites around the wider Moray Firth since 2010. *Note that effort-based Shorewatch was not conducted between mid-March 2020 and late April 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This WDC Shorewatch Sightings dataset contains the sightings data gathered through Shorewatch. It does not contain the effort data or any associated opportunistic sightings. For more information about the Shorewatch Programme, please visit: whales.org/shorewatch. For an up-to-date set of sightings data (more recent than annual) or for an effort-based data set, please contact data@shorewatch.org