This will address those birds rung on Nan Ron and subsequently recaptured elsewhere.
2641019
27 Jul 2009 - 15 Jun 2014
ENR to Priest Island 1784 days 97km 227deg
2661792
1 Aug 2011 - 15 Jun 2014
ENR to Priest Island 1049 days 97km 227deg
2659250
2 Aug 2011 - 15 Jun 2014
ENR to Priest Island 1048 days 97km 227deg
The next birds were all recaptured on Priest Island between 13-15th June 2014.
2659840 Rung ENR 23 Jul 2012 692 days
2681100 Rung ENR 23 Jul 2012 691 days
2681534 Rung ENR 25 Jul 2012 690 days
2681715 Rung ENR 25 Jul 2012 689 days
2681924 Rung ENR 26 Jul 2012 687days
2681951 Rung ENR 26 Jul 2012 689 days
2681994 Rung ENR 28 Jul 2013 322 days
2682597 Rung ENR 31 Jul 2013 319 days
2682299 Rung ENR 24 Aug 2013 295 days
2682427 Rung ENR 24 Aug 2013 293 days
These five birds were not caught on Priest Island - hurrah.
2681964
28 Jul 2013 ENR
26 Aug 2014 Holms of Ire, Sanday, Orkney
394 days 129km 50deg
2682765
1 Aug 2013 ENR
1 Jul 2014 Lunga, Treshnish Isles, Argyll & Bute
334 days 262km 209deg
2685357
24 Aug 2013 ENR
12 Jul 2014 Fair Isle, Shetland
322 days 190km 55deg
2696814
28 Jul 2014 ENR
16 Aug 2014 High Island, Galway IRELAND
19 days, 668km 214deg
2700012
29 Jul 2014 ENR
26 Aug 2014 Holms of Ire, Sanday, Orkney
28 days 129km 50deg
Sunday, 21 December 2014
A run of recoveries.
This will be the first of three posts documenting reported recoveries. This one, the shortest, will be birds notified as firstly rung on Nan Ron and subsequently recaptured in later years. These are birds controlled by our group but firstly ringed by one of the other groups visiting Nan Ron. Who knows how many miles they will have covered in the intervening years.
2573887
19 Jul 2003 - 27 Jul 2014 = 4026 days
2625400
14 Jul 2007 - 27 Jul 2014 = 2570 days
2638919
20 Jul 2009 - 27 Jul 2014 = 1833 days
2668593
25 Jul 2010- 28 Jul 2014 =1464 days
2642081
07 Jul 2013 - 31 Jul 2014 = 389 days
2573887
19 Jul 2003 - 27 Jul 2014 = 4026 days
2625400
14 Jul 2007 - 27 Jul 2014 = 2570 days
2638919
20 Jul 2009 - 27 Jul 2014 = 1833 days
2668593
25 Jul 2010- 28 Jul 2014 =1464 days
2642081
07 Jul 2013 - 31 Jul 2014 = 389 days
Monday, 18 August 2014
...and another thing.
I came across an article called "The Place Names of a Deserted Island" (from
http://www.skerray.com/island-roan/place-names) compiled by Iain Fraser on the testimony of Donald Mackay.
Given that the steps to the island have now been washed away - making visiting so much more difficult - I had a mind to photograph all of the visual features related by Donald so that, at the very least, anyone interested in this island, but unable to visit, would get a flavour of this enigmatic location. Photos will appear in due course with a view to placing them all somewhere in the future as a visual record of the island.
http://www.skerray.com/island-roan/place-names) compiled by Iain Fraser on the testimony of Donald Mackay.
Given that the steps to the island have now been washed away - making visiting so much more difficult - I had a mind to photograph all of the visual features related by Donald so that, at the very least, anyone interested in this island, but unable to visit, would get a flavour of this enigmatic location. Photos will appear in due course with a view to placing them all somewhere in the future as a visual record of the island.
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| A view across Broad Skerry (Sgeir Leathann) towards The Gullet (An Gluta) |
Other things...
In addition to all the birdy things on-going two other 'projects' were initiated this year.
Gerry started a Flora and Fauna listings - which we'll continue next year, and also add night-time moths, and Bob started a mapping and photographic record of all of the buildings.
For the F and F the first year yielded: x3 Coleoptera, x5 Lepidoptera, x10 Arachnida, x1 Hymenoptera x1 Achaeognatha (beetles, butterflies, spiders, bees, windless insects); as well as 22 plants from docks to broom and gorse to bracken {Gerry, plus one conifer in the 'new' gully!].
For the buildings Bob started to map them, primitively, and started a full photographic record which he hopes to build into a 'virtual' representation of what the buildings would have looked like when in use.
Gerry started a Flora and Fauna listings - which we'll continue next year, and also add night-time moths, and Bob started a mapping and photographic record of all of the buildings.
For the F and F the first year yielded: x3 Coleoptera, x5 Lepidoptera, x10 Arachnida, x1 Hymenoptera x1 Achaeognatha (beetles, butterflies, spiders, bees, windless insects); as well as 22 plants from docks to broom and gorse to bracken {Gerry, plus one conifer in the 'new' gully!].
For the buildings Bob started to map them, primitively, and started a full photographic record which he hopes to build into a 'virtual' representation of what the buildings would have looked like when in use.
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| (Our) house number 5 - with outbuildings |
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| Four layers of wallpaper taken from (our) house number 7 [left most recent] |
Final night and final figures.
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.
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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| One of the many |
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)
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Catching some more
The following night the wind was still blowing, but easing, and we pitched the nets in the gully at Cnoc an Losgann. We started catching at 23.30hrs but then, unfortunately, the weather beat us into retreat as steady rain set in after 1am - with us only catching 84 new birds. Timing was everything as we all managed to get back into out tents before heavier rains gave forth.
Catching Storm Petrels at night is not our only activity while on the island. During the day we're keen to 'have a go' at anything else that may be catch-able. There were small collections of twite on the island, but several attempts and several different lures yielded a big fat zero. We did however find ten juvenile Great Skua and caught one free-flying adult - all of which were ringed. We did also ring one Fulmar chick and one Snipe chick - we didn't try for shag this year.
Catching Storm Petrels at night is not our only activity while on the island. During the day we're keen to 'have a go' at anything else that may be catch-able. There were small collections of twite on the island, but several attempts and several different lures yielded a big fat zero. We did however find ten juvenile Great Skua and caught one free-flying adult - all of which were ringed. We did also ring one Fulmar chick and one Snipe chick - we didn't try for shag this year.
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| An uncaught Twite |
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| Ringed, photographed and replaced |
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| Fulmar feeding Fulmar |
Monday, 11 August 2014
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.
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.
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.
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| This is Alex nest finding at the White Cain (during the day) |
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.
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