With a group from the Mid Pembs and Bird Group section of the Wildlife trust I went ‘Offshore’ from Neyland on the Celtic Wildcat to watch sea birds and marine mammals.
Having passed Grassholm and seen the only gannet colony in Wales we went further out to sea, where there were lots of Auks, Shearwaters etc. Having laid a bait trail we were visited by Storm petrels and a Bonxie. Eventually we had approx 90 Fulmars swimming around the boat – mostly they has swam to us as they were in moult.
What and an absolute treat for all. Having seen many seabirds, a few porpoise and some pods of Common Dolphin our skipper spotted Whales in the distance. As they came closer to us we many exciting views of them, as best as we could we decided there were between 10 and 12. By this time we could see they were Fin Whales. They were accompanied by ‘bow wave riding’ common dolphins and Manx shearwaters. A couple of hours later we spotted another two Fin Whales which may or may not have been from the initial group.
Many thanks to Robin Taylor for organising the trip on our behalf.
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