A few wetter and windy days since Kens last post. but it looks like we are likely to have a settled period for the next few days.Today was calm and overcast with a falling tide having arrived about an hour and a half after the top of the tide. Porpoises were evident from the start but mainly distant.
About an hour into the watch I noticed a tight pod of about twenty Common Dolphins coming in from the west quite fast, before starting to feed in front of the lookout but at least a mile and a half away. More joined them well spread out with a handful of gannets above them. Thankfully a smaller pod came in closer crossing East-West and feeding on the move, enabling me to get a few record shots. Ten minutes later they had all gone as quickly as they arrived!
None the less, porpoises began to pass through with the tide (E-W} some close enough to get record shots but i only managed one half decent image. A Grey Seal bottling about half a mile away looked a bit like a fin until I saw it proprly but all in all three species of marine mammals seen in a two hour watch is not bad for mid winter!
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