Saturday, 11 July 2009

Newton Point, 11th July 2009

I decided to try and ring some storm petrels at Newton Point last night......

Stormie

Nice arse !!

The session started slowly with the sky staying fairly bright until gone midnight, at about 12.30 it got darker and three storm petrels found thier way to the net..... then at about 1.30 the car battery decided it had had enough and packed up...... COBBLERS !!

This was a real shame, I reckon there would have been more stormies in the next couple of hours if I could have kept the music going...

One consolation was an unexpected ringing tick, not a leach's petrel unfortunately...... but this nocturnal black-headed gull was flapping around the net at about midnight !


Ringing tick !

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