And for a change...

...bottlenose dolphins! Yesterday we had a special visit. About 30 bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) followed us from Lagos to Portimão and back, with an incursion to Arade river mouth. This species is known by its coastal habits and what makes them one of the most sensitive and threatened. Pollution, touristic pressure, loss of habitat and accidental fishing, for example. Anyhow, this group is apparently healthy, swimming and playing along with their babies. We suspect that this might be a resident population. Now that sardines are gone, we stay with the residents or occasional migratory species. Waiting for fishermen leftovers was also the great shearwater (alone again) and an unidentified shearwater (maybe balearic...). And two days ago, the magnificent great skua (Stercorarius skua). I call it luck. Information about bottlenose dolphins here. It was a pleasure so observe them again, FREE!