Catching

Sunday evening we set up on what we call The Maze - a gentle sloping piece of land at the north of the island. Locally it is known as Cam Ban - the White Cain - which is the rock structure immediately to the east.
CAtching the first bird at 23.15hrs we continued until we ran out of rings- 557 new birds; where the previous nights record had been a mere 380 (the rest of our rings were back at the camp site). In addition we were catching both local and international retraps (see totals later). We closed down, early, at 02.16hrs Monday morning.

This is Alex nest finding at the White Cain (during the day)

Monday night we were back at Cam Ban with all of our rings. The first bird was caught at 23.30hrs and we continued catching until 03.28hrs - 414 new birds were caught.

Tuesday night was a night off - not due to slacking on our part - but the weather was too inclement and unpredictable with high wings and squally showers to justify staying awake for little return.