How did a whale get into the middle of a field in East Yorkshire?

The 33ft mammal, thought to be a Sei whale, was discovered in the salt marshes on the north bank of the River Humber.

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has been monitoring the area over the summer due to an increase in whale sightings.It it thought that the whale became stranded in shallow waters and rolled over onto its blowhole and died, before the tide retreated and left it behind, near the village of Skeffling.

Conservationists think the increase in strandings could be down to a change in sea currents bringing colder streams of Arctic water into the North Sea.

Conservationists who examined the animal said they are 95 per cent certain it is a female Sei whale.

Andy Gibson, of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said Sei whale strandings were very rare with only three in UK waters in the last 20 years.

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