Tuesday 11 May 2021

Saving the best for last...

 I met up with Ken at Strumble as the tide was on the ebb,having dodged a downpour getting down to the lookout.  He had had a single brief sighting of one porpoise.before i got there but no pic's The rain kept us indoors for a while and when a closer porpoise surfaced the brick pillars confused the location of the sightings which I am sure Ken would have got on otherwise. But still it was an improvement on the past couple of weeks where sightings have been few and far between at any state of the tide. 

Adrian spotted a couple of more distant porpoises and as the sky brightened we went back outside. The tide was quite big and the southerly breeze created a choppy tide race making spotting difficult but as the tide worked around to pass the light ,Ken spotted several gannets feeding and then as we got on to them it was obviously a bit of a feeding frenzy with at least twenty + porpoises feeding below them.So at last Porpoise in the kind of numbers we expect at Strumble, Too distant for pics but something of a relief!





No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.