It's been a lean week for me as far as porpoise surveys go. I did manage to get out a couple of times but after those massive tides earlier in the week sightings were hard to come by. The two suveys I did manage produced a few sightings but no meaningful or usable images.
So to today.
I went out for the afternoon dropping tide, starting my survey at 13.30, approx' one hour into the tide. The wind, still from the E-NE was not as cold as of late and moderately light. Visibility though was poor with a lot of haze to start with but as the cloud moved off and the sun came out the haze lifted somewhat. My first sighting was of several Commons fairly far out making their way NE stopping at intervals to chase prey. Then about two hours into the tide I had distant sightings of porpoise. Eight in all with one group of four and four individuals, sadly all too distant for images. Right through the survey up unttil I left for home there were commons visible all accross my view and I'd guess a total of around 90-100 over that period.
The tide race was very late forming and thankfully a few poroises did come in to feed. Mostly individuals with one pair showing well and staying in the tide race for several minutes before moving on. Survey ended 16.30.