On Thursday night we set up on Am Bail - The Village - otherwise known as the camp site. Again with only two sixty foot nets we started catching at 23.30hrs and continued until we had all had enough. This proved to be just after 2.15am when we had caught in excess of 350 new birds.
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| One of the many |
After four hours sleep, or thereabouts, we started to dismantle camp ready for our departure at eleven. Jean duly arrived with Billy on a choppy sea. Obviously it was going to be a little wet if Jean had talked land-loving Billy into coming along - and so it proved - at least for Cian (and Billy).
Final finals.
In the end our totals for the year were:
Storm Petrel
1507 new birds
34 retraps (including, original ringing year, 1995 x1, 2001 x1, 2007 x1, 2009 x2, 2010 x1, 2012 x10, 2013 x6)
81 retraps (our own birds from 2014 and not put into IPMR)
14 UK controls
2 Portugese controls
4 Norwegian controls (with one bird caught twice)
Great Skua
11 new (including one adult) with 3 retraps
1 Fulmar
1 Snipe
1 Wheatear (same year, juvenile retrap)
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