A pod of dolphins was spotted swimming in Long Island Sound off the coast of Old Lyme.

Around 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 24, Megan Tufveson was at her home in Hawk's Nest Beach in Old Lyme when she spotted the dolphins swimming by. The dolphins were swimming pretty far off shore, Tufveson said.

This is not the first time dolphins have been spotted in the Sound this summer. In June, an angler off the shore of Niantic Beach captured a video of multiple dolphins breaching the water right near his boat. Additionally, dolphins were spotted south of Connecticut in the Bronx River back in January, the first time the animals had been seen there in five years.

Dolphins typically come into the sound for food, Maritime Aquarium Senior Trainer Dylan Salamone told Hearst Connecticut Media in March 2022. With this, the increased prevalence of dolphins in Long Island Sound could be a sign of the area's improving health, Salamone said.

Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) recommends humans stay at least 300 feet from sea animals like dolphins. The department notes it is illegal to touch, feed, disturb, harass, capture or kill marine mammals like dolphins and urges boated to exercise caution as many of aquatic species are vulnerable to "crippling or fatal collisions with powerboats and interaction with fishing gear."