By Thomas Weston
We say goodbye to Greg today as he departs Lundy after completing his volunterring with us since March. Greg has been a great assit to the team, having been able to assist and gain a C permit for Manx adults, Manx pulli, and trapping for passerines and near passerines. Greg has found many a rare and scarce bird too, and has been key in achieving our census and log requirements as the Bird Observatory. Greg has posted quite a few blogs during his time, and many of you would have met Greg on your travels to the island. We hope he goes on to big and great things, plus we look forward to seeing Greg again on island. A real round circle happened too, with Greg's first bird processed on the island being a Common Snipe, and his last bird processed on the island being a Common Snipe too! After we caught 3 last night. This marks the last of our long term volunteers to head off for the season. Alas, census continues until the 15th, and blogs will still be posted here daily until December. However, in December we will be changing the blog timings to a weekly occurance from December to February during a quieter period when it is notoriously hard for readers to visit. The only exceptions to additional blogs will be unless we get some nice winter birds arriving, which we hope will be the case.
Highlights from today:
- Jackdaw around the Village
- Long tailed Tits remain on the island with 8 on the island today.
- A single Stock Dove is a island scarcity
- A 1st year female Greenfinch outside Pigs.
- Our female Merlin keeps clearing up the tired Chaffinches.