Some of yesterdays photos of our second trip to Lihoumel to do Cormorant pullus with Paul and Catherine, we managed to ring another seven birds we are hoping to get out to the humps this coming week weather permitting, as the window is closing for Cormorant pullus fingers crossed for good weather the spring migration for ringing is nearly over to with poor weather conditions and clear nights I have not managed to catch many but now we will be busy with our sea birds starting on the 20th May with canon netting gulls at the tip with the Northames gull group.
With an early start I left home just after 5 am and met up with the Norththemes Gull group at Pauls we were at the tip by 6am and set up the cannon net with a load of refuge put in the firing area it was only a matter of time before we took our first fire we managed another two sets with the cannon net our total catch of the day was 290 Herring gulls 73 Lesser black backs and 3 Greater black backs all in all it was a good first day of a week long cannon netting 
Some of yesterdays photos of our second trip to Lihoumel to do Cormorant pullus with Paul and Catherine, we managed to ring another seven birds we are hoping to get out to the humps this coming week weather permitting, as the window is closing for Cormorant pullus fingers crossed for good weather the spring migration for ringing is nearly over to with poor weather conditions and clear nights I have not managed to catch many but now we will be busy with our sea birds starting on the 20th May with canon netting gulls at the tip with the Northames gull group.
