At last a warm day and it was a treat to be at Strumble on such a great day. I've not been out so much of late as this May is a very busy one for me. I arrived for the dropping tide in the early afternoon and the first hour was quiet as I waited for the tide race to form. As the outer tide race got going 50-60 Commons moved in from the NW with well over a hundred Gannets above. Quite a feed going on with dashing dolphins and diving Gannets dodging the 100 or so Manx Sheerwater also joining the feast. This lasted well into the formation of the inner tide race but the Commons never came closer in. As the dolphins moved back west with the tide several porpoise moved up the inner tide race showing reasonably well as they sped along. This was in stark contrast to yesterday where the fiteen or so that I saw hardly showed at all and were very stealthy barely breaking surface and then only once before diving again. I checked for Bottlenose on my return to Goodwick but alas there were none there.
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