A beautiful morning at Strumble today as I joined Cliff for a couple of hours on the rising tide.I was doing my usual Porpoise/Dolphin survey whilst Cliff was conducting a very interesting Gannet survey. Between cetacean sightings I helped Cliff with sightings. The idea was to identify 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th year/adult Gannets to see the numbers of juvenile/sub adult birds compared to mature adults. The results were quite interesting and could give an indication of their recovery after the bird flu epidemic.
On the Cetacean front, there were several groups of Commons visible all through the survey with a count of 80-100 or so in total. Porpoise numbers were as expected with a total of ten sighted sporadically through the two hours of the survey. It's not often we see the Commons bow riding the in coming Ferry but today things fell into place and we got a good view of some real flyers enjoying the pressure wave on the bow as she passed Strumble. The Choughs are very active at the moment and a few dropped in below the lookout so I couldn't resist a shot or two.
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