When I arrived at Strumble today the Thursday survey team had been on effort for their first hour. They had been observing common dolphin since they arrived. As the tide dropped away the commons moved around in front of us feeding (most likely) on small shoals of fish. As one group moved off around the point more would come in from the west. Later the porpoise joined the party, at first one then two more. At this stage it was time for the survey team to end their session and return to the Ocean lab.
I continued my survey and was kept well occupied as with more porpoise and commons sharing the tide race and darting in all directions. My best estimate on numbers for the duration of my survey would be 50-70 common dolphin and 10-12 porpoise. The first two images were taken on the 24th Feb.
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