When to claire mare at 6.00 and met Mich and opened the nets in the reed beds
With the reed wet and thick fog the open mets kept getting water droplets forming on them
keeping them visible to the birds. we only managed to catch a few birds and closed up
by 8am, The best bird of the day was a ringing tick for Mich a common sand piper

After Sundays pelagic it was good to go back down to the Claire mare  on bank holiday Monday
though the weather on Sunday was good the sea was very dirty and we did not manage to stay
in one area for long the best sighting was of a basking shark that came along side the  boat
other birds seen were 50+ Gannets     30 + Baleric shearwater  30+ Manx shearwaters
20+ Storm petrels 1 Great skua   3 Artic skuas  1 possible Pomarine skua 1 Black tern
2 Atric terns  2 Sandwich terns  10 Common terns
ringing at the Claire mare on Monday in 3 hours managed to trap and ring another 28 Sedge
2 reed warbler and a code 5 Black bird female this year so far Sedge are up to nearly 200
rung at the Claire mare in the last 4 weeks it seems like Sedge have recovered from last years
wet year even though Reed warbler are still down in numbers but are still up on last year

With the moon be full and clear night there his not mush at the claire mare reed beds this week with
only a hand full for birds rung mainly sedge / reed warblers and 3 willow warbler, The best being a
whinchat code 3, (Or this year juv)

thanks to michelle who is holding the bird

I went down to the Claire Mare this morning at 5:30am and opened up 8 nets with a light WNW wind there was not much down there, in 2 hours of ringing I managed to ring another 9 Sedge and 1 Willow warbler but with the winds this week going more to the North then North East to East and light one to three winds I am hoping for some good migration in the coming week on a sad note
cormorant colour ring BA that was rung on lihoumel on the 21st of the April 2012 has been reported
shot in Barros de luna Spain on the 12/11/12 proberly part of Spains fish protection program

With the sea-bird season over it has been another sucessful year with Herring Gulls showing
to have had a good breeding season along with Cormorants and Shags even though the LBGS
failed on Burhou with only a handfull of chicks being colour ringed it was great to get back down to
the reed beds at the Claire mare for the start of migration so far in the last 3 weeks it has been
showing to be a good year after last years poor breeding season
with 124 Sedge warblers  traped and rung so far and 3 aquatic warblers the first for 3 years
and Sedge almost double what I traped last year 2 of the Aquatic warblers being traped and rung
yesterday the 17th August by myself and Michelle Hooper another trainee who is about to get
her licence