Tiny fish fly out of the water in a flurry of action along the shoreline before flopping onto the land. Four bottlenose dolphins were right on their tails. Soon, lunch was served on a Bluffton marsh bank for the crafty dolphins, who had teamed up to execute a complex and fascinating feeding tactic known as strand feeding that is peculiar to local salt marsh dolphins.
In an amazing piece of footage, Bluffton drone pilot Jason All captured the entire scene of the four dolphins corralling the mullet and herding them ashore. The dolphins swam side-by-side, then heaved themselves onto the land, briefly stranding themselves and their prey before wiggling back into the water with dinner in their jaws.
Seeing strand feeding in action is rare. All captured the four dolphins carrying out the hunting scheme multiple times beginning at 3:40 p.m. Friday. At the time, he was flying his drone near a creek close to the mouth of the May River near the Old South Golf Links, not far from his backyard…