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10:05 (29 minutes ago)
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Jordan had promised, for ages ,a trip out for his group of mates from Sheffield uni
they all arrived in Pemb's on Friday
with great excitement and high expectations the weather calmed, so of we went! The sun shone as we passed sheep island and headed south
Our first sighting was close to the turbot bank 6 or 8 adults slowly foraging
some investigated us the rest carried on with their day.
next encounter was more energetic 20 adults 2 young calves bowrode for a while and as we ploughed slowly on they were replaced with more groups of 8 or 10 with 1 or 2 young in each pod .
this was the pattern for the next 2 hours, around 300 commons bowriding or seen within 100 m of us in groups of 10 or 20 most groups had young say one in ten
not many fin identification pictures were taken but plenty of selfies
at around 15 miles south with Lundy in full view as we readied to turn back a Minke popped up, dead ahead 200 m away, we hung around but the Minke had other ideas
birds seen 3 young flightless gannets
one great skua
plenty of shearwaters and some feeding gannets
so thanks to Jordan and Cassie , Jemmima Ken and the Sheffield Uni' mountain bikes
