Strumble Diary 11.30am 12pm 23/03 2016

 So with a rainy day forcasted, the Monday Photo ID volunteers were stood down and true to the forcast, it rained which is no good for photos! None the less, Fran and self decided to give Strumble a try, just to see what was there.On arrival the falling tide race was choppy and pushing closer to the shore than usual, calmer beyond.. 

Despite the murky weather, slashing rain and choppy tide race, within minutes of our arrival we spotted groups of dolphins. Some were close in, others further out. for the next half hour there were groups moving about in front of us.

There could be fifty or sixty maybe a hundred+ Common Dolphins, impossible to acurately count in groups of six or seven or double+ figures, as time went by, i began to think it was easily 100+ as they seem to turn up all over the place wherever you looked.

One thing for certain was, we spotted several mothers with calves. Another interesting phenomena was that we also spotted a few porpoises with Common Dolphins feeding close by, but without any negative interactions This is interesting as their bigger cousins the Bottlenose Dolphins are known to attack both Common Dolphins and Porpoises..