Just an hour and a half at the top of the tide and dropping,10.45 12.15 light S.Westerly sunny reasonably calm with good visibility.
When i arrived there was a big distant feeding flock of Gannets about 3/4 miles out to the North and i could just make out what i am sure were Common Dolphins breaking the surface occasionally breaching beneath them. It took a while before I noticed a mother and calf Common Dolphin relatively close in. they were only just showing backs and fins most of the time acting a bit cagey as if not wanting to have their presence known. They remained within a similar area throughout the watch popping up every now and again.
A steady trickle of hirundines flew in off the sea, mainly Swallows which added to the spring like feeling and our resident Rock Pipit did its trilling parachute display every few minutes. I wonder how many generations of these otherwise inobrusive little brown jobs i have seen over the past four + decades.
It was about an hour into the falling tide by the time any Porpoises showed, they were reasonably close and i managed this shot but missed a pretty spectacular bit of leapfrogging where one Porpoisee lept over another in what was perhaps a bit of breeding behaviour I had one or two more sightings before i decided to pack up!
Bottle nose Dolphins a couple of miles away in Fishguard Bay on Monday, with Porpoise and Common Dolphin today not many places could match that here in the UK!
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