Today felt like the first true day of winter at Strumble. The 7deg felt more like 2 or 3 with the brisk NE wind pushing onshore. With the wind crossing the tide race it made for some pretty disturbed water too (see first image). The 08.15 start meant the light was quite poor as well but as the sun rose it slowly improved to manageable levels. First to show were a small group of Commons off to the NW with a single porpoise moving up the tide race some twenty minutes later. From then on it was the odd common or two but very hard to pick out in the turbulent water. It was a while later that the porpoise started to show, with several brief and stealthy sightings and I thought at one stage I wouldn't get any shots at all. Thankfully a pair which looked like a mother and juvenile came up the tide stream and hung around for fifteen minutes or so giving better views to the extent that I was able to recognise the mother with a hooked tip on her fin as one I'd seen quite a few times before (see highlighted images below). The action died away around 10 ish so I closed my session at 10.15am and headed home to thaw out with a warm cuppa.
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