Strumble - 16 Jul 10

Watch from 0730 to 1445hrs. After a southerly gales overnight, there were repeated squalls at first, clearing at around 0930hrs. Wind initially WSW 4 to 6, then WNW for a while before returning to WSW. There was a slow and fragmented movement of Manxies, going both East and West with numbers quite low. Common Scoter passage numbered 35, 5 of which were female. There were 2 Puffins and a single Storm Petrel.

For Cliff: Porpoises were active right across the tide race and for most of the time I was present. Interestingly, a couple of, I assume, females were gently and frequently surfacing side by side with a very small calf between them. I remember seeing the same thing at Wooltack Point a few years ago: a new born calf perhaps?