Saturday 25 January 2020

News from Phil Lees


Philip Lees

AttachmentsWed, 22 Jan, 20:33 (3 days ago)
to Cliff
Hi Cliff

Good to have a quick chat today. Attached is the photo I mentioned. We made the most of the superb weather at weekend to get out on the coast. We did a St Davids Head circular walk on Saturday afternoon and the beach at Gesail Fawr was covered in seals. My wife counted 102 on the photo, the most we've seen on a mainland beach. On Sunday we walked from Trefin to Porthgain and stopped at Porthgain Beacon to try and spot porps and within 2 minutes picked up a small pod of Risso's moving slowly westwards about 500 metres out from the harbour. There were 5 to 6; one large mainly white individual, a couple of smaller adults and a couple that looked smaller still possibly juveniles. We watched them for 20 minutes until they disappeared behind Pen Clegyr. No porps but I wasn't too disappointed! Possibly this was the same group that was seen on Saturday off Strumble?

Hopefully catch up with you at the Strumble in the not to distant future.

All the best

Phil