Apparently Ros wants to be known as Ros and not Ross!

Surely it should be Rosalind? (Hope I got all the corrections ;-)

Portugese recovery (and others)

N05238 (age 6)
15.06.2012  Ponta de Almadena, Faro, Portugal
Wing 127mm Weight 29.5g
31.07.2013 ENR
Wing 126mm Weight 27.9g
411days 2409km 8deg

2454067 (age 4)
24.07.2012 Auckengill, Highland Region
29.07.2013 ENR
370days 72km 270deg

2681325
25.07.2012 ENR
11.08.2013 Fair Isle, Shetland
382days 190km 55deg

2681774
25.07.2012 ENR
13.09.2013 Duncansby Head, Highland Region
415days 75km 83deg

Ringed ENR 2013, recaptured elsewhere 2013

2681966 ENR 28.07.13 Duncansby Head, Higland 13.09.13
47days 75km 83deg
2682004 ENR 29.07.13 Strathy Point, Highland 05.08.2013
7days 18km 78deg
268222 ENR 31.07.13 Auckengill, Highland 10.09.13
41days 72km 91deg
2682478 ENR 31.07.13 Strathy Point, Highland 05.08.13
5days 18km 78deg
2682483 ENR 31.07.13 Bur Wick, South Ronaldsay, Orkney 05.09.13
36days 82km 76deg

a collection of pixels from 2013

More records

2546825
4 ENR 25.07.2001
4 ENR 29.07.2013 - 12years and 4 days - not even close to the longevity record for this species.

Birds controlled from ringing on the night of the 29th July 2013
2670719
6 Priest Island, Highland 16.06.2013. 43d 97km 47deg
2594903
4 Isle of May, Fife 03.08.2011. 726d 284km 339deg
2622016
4 Faraid Head, Highland 26.08.2011. 703d 27km 103deg

 Birds controlled from ringing on the night of the 31st July 2013
2671038
6 Priest Island, Highland 15.06.2012. 411d 97km 47deg
2647426
4 Faraid Head, Highland 27.08.2011. 704d 27km 103deg
2558478
4 Faraid Head, Highland 27.08.2010. 1069d 27km 103deg
2454277
4 Duncansby Head, Highland 31.07.2012. 365d 75km 263deg
2638389
4 Fair Isle, Shetland 22.08.2012.43d 190km 235deg

 Bird controlled from ringing on the night of the 1st Aug 2013
 2622155
4 Faraid Head, Highland 27.08.2011. 705d 27km 103deg

Some recoveries from the 2013 season of others

2659321 & 2659434
Ringed ENR 02 Aug 2011. Controlled Priest Island 15 June 2013
683 days, 97km, 227degrees.

2681100
Ringed ENR 23 Jul 2012. Controlled Priest Island 15 June 2013
327 days, 97km, 227degrees.

2659892
Ringed ENR 24 Jul 2012. Controlled Priest Island 15 June 2013
326 days, 97km, 227degrees.

The visit of 2013

Apologies all for the lack of build up, and details, for this year's visit but, due to a packed timetable, I was unable to go this year. Thus it was left to Kenny to sort out the visit - much of which passed me by.
The Team this year consisted of some regulars (Kenny, Tony), some devoted hangers on (Andy & Jedda), some newbies (Alan Paul) and several Nan Ron virgins (Ros, Alex, Scott, Chris).
Rain was a minor irritation of this year with the on-island and off-island trips being accompanied by rain and, annoyingly, one night of activity completely lost to rain.

The bird of the visit (besides the Portugese control) was probably 2546825, a UK control that was 'assisted' from its burrow by the long arm of Ros.

Final figures:
846 new Stormies, 38 retraps (24 x 2013, 11 x 2012, 3 x 2011 and 1 x 2010), 13 UK controls and one Portugese. Eleven skuas were ringed, four as trapped adults.

And a picture from the island - in case you're missing it already.

The list has already started for next year.

a straggler and a new one....

the straggler
2659359
02.08.2011 ENR
04.08.2012 Sanda Island, Kintyre, Argyll & Bute
368 days 373km 192deg

the new
a new species of Storm-Petrel. Discovered by Seamus Enright and Michael O'Keefe off the coast of Chile in 2009 it has just been declared a new species. DNA samples and feathers have just been 'recovered' from birds recently caught and, once completed, the next step will be to find out more about these birds.
See Brisitish Birds April 2013 p187

62deg 0min N 6deg 40min W

I believe this is our first ever recovery from the Faroe Islands. Averaged 40km a night to get there, which would be nothing for these little fellas.
2681167
ENR 23.07.2012
Nolsoy, Streymoy, Faroe Islands 01.08.2012
9days 405km 342deg

One bird alone.

2590295
25.08.2011 Tiumpan Head, Western Isles
25.07.2012 ENR
335 days 110km 73d