Wednesday 15 August 2018

Bottles smashing Sewin!


On Sunday our wonderful ex-intern Cristina visited us with her family from Spain, and they joined us with Gaynor McMorrin's family and  what is presumably the same pair, and another adult gave distant but for Cristina's Sister Lucia, thrilling views as they were her first!




James and I arrived on the breakwater at about 3.15 and saw three Gannets feeding off the end of the breakwater. True to form they were accompanying a Mother and calf Bottlenose Dolphin and possibly another. The recent rains have attracted migratory Sea Trout and Salmon into the Harbour at Fishguard and yesterday we got a nice view of one thanks to the Dolphins.


From blowing up the pic', It is obviously a salmonid, thanks to the tell tail rear adipose fin behind the dorsal fin, My Game fishing Guru Brian Collins reckons its a sewin (Sea Trout) rather than one of the small summer salmon known as grilse.

A gannet also caught a fish nearby, which it failed to swallow but it was not a Salmonid as it clearly lacked the adipose fin, more likely a pollack from general shape and what I can see of its tail!




This demonstrates that just because you see a gannet catch a fish near feeding cetaceans its not necessarily the same species! which puts a bit of a spanner in the works as we have always thought it probably would be!