A bright day with excellent visibility is what greeted me on my arrival at Strumble today. Within ten minutes of setting up I got a view of some thirty or so Common Dolphin approaching from the Fishguard direction (East) all tightly grouped together. They were headed NW and as they passed they got progressively further away. They stopped and circled at one stage as if they'd come accross a shoal of fish and were feeding on it for a few minutes before continuing. The first of the Thursday survey team arrived just in time to see them before they went out of sight. The rest of the team arrived and we started the two hour survey.
Another small group of commons was the first sighting, passing East to West at a steady speed. A while later Fran spotted splashes way out and it was soon confirmed that they were Rissos. When I say "Way out" they were roughly 2 miles out and except for the calm conditions would most probably have not been seen. Some twenty minutes later having turned they were spotted by Dawn coming back East to West and a little closer in. Sadly no porpoise recorded today but that's the way it goes some days. We did get splendid views of a stunningly vivid rainbow out in the channel which was visible for a good fifteen minutes or so.
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