Strumble Diary 03/12/2019

With clear blue skies and the wind having gone around to the south things were just a little warmer at Strumble today. I arrived around 09.30 ish as the tide race was forming although as we are on small tides it wasn't quite the raging torrent we see at times. Early on three porpoise passed through not staying to feed though. Things went very quiet then until I spotted a pair of Rissos off to the NW. A mother with juvenile which looked to be feeding in a similar area to where we saw the larger group yesterday. Holly and Rob arrived later and we spotted the Rissos again, this time to the NE of the lookout beyond the tide race. Again they seemed to be feeding as they hung around for a good while until the boat that's doing surveys at Strumble moved closer to their position. This seemed to scare them off and we didn't see them again. As the boat moved toward Fishguard we had sporadic sightings of a few more porpoise just moving through which brought the count up to eight for the session for me. With the tide race all but gone and the fingertips getting ever colder we decided to call it a day shortly after 1pm.