People have been asked not to approach the creature and to keep dogs away while the local council arranges for the carcass to be removed.
A council spokesman told the Press Association:"Yesterday afternoon it had washed close to the harbour and then, with the movement of the tide, it went out to sea and came back in the morning time."Conservation charity the Scottish Seabird Centre said on Twitter on Wednesday:"Very sad sight this afternoon - a dead minke whale just off North Berwick harbour.
"This stranding has been reported to the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme , which collates and analyses all reports of stranded cetaceans and can carry out autopsies to understand more about the health and ecology of these fascinating marine animals." Minkes are the smallest of the baleen whales, and the most common of the species found in Scotland, conservation advisory group, NatureScot, said on its website, and can be seen in the country's coastal and inshore waters between April and October.
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