I've been busy with family lately so not out as often as usual. Today was my chance to get out again and during my favoured dropping tide. An early morning start on the North breakwater by 07.40 hoping for some Bottlenose action before heading to Strumble. Sadly it was dead quiet there with no sign of any action at all apart from some very noisy Oyster catches passing by. I moved to Strumble then and was there by 08.30ish, where the outer tide race was well under way. Very quiet at first then 45 minutes in I spotted a lone porpoise moving East to West with the tide. A while later again and a group of three consisting of a mother and calf and presumably a juvenile as well. The same little group as I captured last week. I was by this time talking with a couple from the South Wales Valleys who were up for the day when we spotted a pod of around twenty or so Commons really going for it moving East to West accross in front of us. They slowed as they passed but didn't stop, then carried on turning to the NW and out of sight. Another closer view of the mother/calf pair and that was it. With more family activity planned for the late morning I left just shortly before 10.30 happy to have seen the Commons lively passing.
Bonus sighting was this lovely Kestrel resting some 100Mtrs or so from the lookout.
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