By Chloë Langmead
Happy Monday, I hope you all had great weekends!
Yesterday morning, Thomas, Lucile, Jayden, Tara and I went out to catch 3 Mallard Ducklings to ring. This went very smoothly and was exciting as not many Mallard get ringed on Lundy. We hope to go back next week to ring the adults while they moult.
This morning started with a seal disturbance survey at Brazen Ward. It was fairly high tide so there weren’t many seals about, most were probably of foraging. However I was treated to the cool sight of a peregrine flying right past me, carrying a freshly killed bird (unfortunately it passed too quickly for me to tell the species)!
Next it was off to the Landing Bay for the first snorkel safari of the year! Despite the visibility being less than ideal due to some easterly’s we still had a great time! After getting fully geared up in neoprene we found lots of awesome marine life! Some of the highlights were cowries, some big shrimp, an intact edible crab moult, deadman’s fingers coral and Jessie found a Nudibranch!