Bird wakes
There are wake sightings that occur when the loch is dead calm with no boat nearby. A bartender named David Munro claims to have witnesd a wake he believed was a creature zigzagging, diving, and reappearing. (There were 26 other witness from a nearby car park.) Some sightings describe the ont of a V-shaped wake, as if there were something uer. Moreover, many wake sightings describe something not ing to the shape of a boat. Under dead calm ditions, a creature too small to be visible to the naked eye leave a clear v-shaped wake. In particular, a group of swimming birds give a wake and the appearance of an object. A group of birds leave the water and then land again, giving a quence of wakes like an object breaking the surface, which Dick Raynor says is a possible explanation for his film.
Eels
A giant eel was actually one of the first suggestions made. Eels are found in Loess, and an unusually large eel would fit many sightings. This has been described as a rvative explanation. Eels are not known to protrude swanlike from the water and thus would not at for the head and neck sightings. Dinsdale dismisd the proposal becau eels move in a side-to-side undulation.
Bird wakes
There are wake sightings that occur when the loch is dead calm with no boat nearby. A bartender named David Munro claims to have witnesd a wake he believed was a creature zigzagging, diving, and reappearing. (There were 26 other witness from a nearby car park.) Some sightings describe the ont of a V-shaped wake, as if there were something uer. Moreover, many wake sightings describe something not ing to the shape of a boat. Under dead calm ditions, a creature too small to be visible to the naked eye leave a clear v-shaped wake. In particular, a group of swimming birds give a wake and the appearance of an object. A group of birds leave the water and then land again, giving a quence of wakes like an object breaking the surface, which Dick Raynor says is a possible explanation for his film.
Eels
A giant eel was actually one of the first suggestions made. Eels are found in Loess, and an unusually large eel would fit many sightings. This has been described as a rvative explanation. Eels are not known to protrude swanlike from the water and thus would not at for the head and neck sightings. Dinsdale dismisd the proposal becau eels move in a side-to-side undulation.
On 2 May 2001, two ger eels were found on the shore of the loch; however, as ger eels are saltwater animals and Loess is a freshwater body of water, it is believed that they were put there to be en as “Mini-Nessies”.