Strumble diary 6/9/25

A late afternoon visit to Strumble with the tide just begining to make and a stiff surprisingly warm C20 Sou-Westerly giving a bit of leeward shelter in front of the lookout for a few hundred yards out and then an angry chop further out. Small froups of mainly juvenile gulls Black Headed and Herring gulls squabbling over bait fish and odd Gannets shallow diving with them. But little sign of any cetaceans until Fran got a glimpse of a Risso heading towards the lighthouse. We searched in vain for it to reappear but it had done a typical Risso's disappearing trick. Fran headed out to the lighthouse with Megan our Staffie to have a look for Seal pups. While she was away i concentrated on the area where the Risso had last been seen After about ten minutes i had a fleeting glimpseof one and then a couple of distant Porpoises out from the lighthouse. Fran returned with the news of several pups from down the steps of the lighthouse We had a couple more closer porpoise sightings the in the developing tide-race and a while later i spotted two or three Risso's further out from the porpoises, beyond the tide-race. Frustratingly hese also did a disappearing trick and despite a concerted search by both of uswe could not relocate them. A few minutes later we were joined by new interns Ruth Rose and Rose's Father who got another couple of Porpoisesbefore we left them to it and headed home.