Day Three
May 15th
An early check on the beaches at 06:30AM revealed the possibility of a good catch being made at Cooks road so the crew was assembled following a small party that headed out to set the net and the canons fired at 07:30AM, barely an hour after making the decision to go ahead! A good catch although the net was held up a bit by the breeze but we had 153 shorebirds netted. This time we had some Red Knot 48(2) a few Ruddy Turnstone 28(6), 76(7) Sanderling and one Semi-palmated Sandpiper. I should point out that most catches include some Laughing Gull but these numbers do not figure in the final statistics (not strictly shorebirds!) and they are released unbanded.
An early check on the beaches at 06:30AM revealed the possibility of a good catch being made at Cooks road so the crew was assembled following a small party that headed out to set the net and the canons fired at 07:30AM, barely an hour after making the decision to go ahead! A good catch although the net was held up a bit by the breeze but we had 153 shorebirds netted. This time we had some Red Knot 48(2) a few Ruddy Turnstone 28(6), 76(7) Sanderling and one Semi-palmated Sandpiper. I should point out that most catches include some Laughing Gull but these numbers do not figure in the final statistics (not strictly shorebirds!) and they are released unbanded.
More Sanderling including a flagged individual
Horseshoe crabs at the strandline in daytime
Laughing Gull
Forster's Tern feeding nearby our processing area
Larry, Mandy and Phil at the processing table
Mandy and Phil checking a bill measurement
Laughing Gull, Sanderling and Ruddy Turnstone
Willet on station in the marsh at Cooks Road
posted by Ardenna at 9:00 PM
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