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Critical Marine Habitats Project: Kittiwake-sandeel paper!
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Critical Marine Habitats Project. Friday, 23 November 2012. I should have also mentioned in my previous post that we now have a publication out on our sandeel-kittiwake work. This showed that sandeels aggregated close to the surface during maximum ebb tidal currents, and this was associated with maximum kittiwake feeding. However this only occurred in limited locations, especially those locations with high sub-surface chlorophyll levels, thus creating localised foraging 'hotspots'. This is the blog for o...
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Critical Marine Habitats Project: In the news!
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Critical Marine Habitats Project. Tuesday, 5 May 2009. Check out this link. To an article on our project in the EU Projects magazine. This gives a great update on some of our progress to date. We had a great project meeting in the Lakes at the end of January revealing some interesting insights already. Photos credited to Jim Roberts (MRAG). These differences between bank and off-bank are likely, at least in part, to be related to the exciting dye tracking results (Mark Inall, SAMS) that showed that any n...
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Critical Marine Habitats Project: November 2012
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Critical Marine Habitats Project. Friday, 23 November 2012. I should have also mentioned in my previous post that we now have a publication out on our sandeel-kittiwake work. This showed that sandeels aggregated close to the surface during maximum ebb tidal currents, and this was associated with maximum kittiwake feeding. However this only occurred in limited locations, especially those locations with high sub-surface chlorophyll levels, thus creating localised foraging 'hotspots'. It won't be long now b...
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Golden Mallard Challenge: March 2015
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The Original Patch List Challenge. Monday, 30 March 2015. Bet they wish they'd stayed in the sunshine. Weather on patch has been piss poor, as has the mood, truth be told. Then on Saturday I spied my first swallow, swiftly followed by two (count 'em) sand martians! So it's officially - spring has most certainly sprung! More importantly it puts me back on top of the leaderboard on 74.12%. Which is nice. Wednesday, 18 March 2015. Rarest of them all. Score update to follow soon. Tuesday, 10 March 2015.
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Golden Mallard Challenge: February 2015
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The Original Patch List Challenge. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. Thought I would get that one in before someone else. And before flying out tonight, that left just enough time for a cheeky rummage through the patch that came up with not one, but two (count 'em) Siberian blue robins. A female, and an immature male, which is fortunate as an adult male would no doubt have led to instant disqualification. Here's the female. A bunch of golden plovers. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. Monday, 23 February 2015. Chines...
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Golden Mallard Challenge: The Patches
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The Original Patch List Challenge. In a nutshell.a golf course next to the sea, next to Aberdeen! Decent seawatching and migrants but not a lot in the way of breeding birds. Over 230 species. Have been recorded there, and the highest year total recorded there (to my knowledge at least! Is 136. Would probably be much higher if there was some regular standing water! Hidden away down in County Cork in south-west Ireland, Galley Head is a grand spot altogether! God knows whats been missed in there though!
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Golden Mallard Challenge: lameness
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The Original Patch List Challenge. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. The sea continues to be very quiet, apart from 1 fea's. On saturday am and two yesterday (I missed all of 'em! However today I weighed in with 5 (count 'em) arctic terns. So it wasn't all bad, as that means I leapfrog Cap'n Haddock in the scores on doors. Shame there's so few big shears tho, seawatching is crap without them! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 2016 Scores on Doors. The Mall - 95.77%. Old Portlethen - 93.62%. Longhaven - 68.70%.
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Golden Mallard Challenge: The Players
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The Original Patch List Challenge. Thar she blows, it's a humpback! Captain Archibald Haddock only docked his boat in Old Portlethen at the end of 2008, so hasn't accumulated a huge patch list yet. HeI likes nothing better than a yomp around his favourite bits of the coastline, or peering down his spyglass to the sea through his porthole. As he gets to know his patch better, he appeciates more about which bits are likely to attract birds under different conditions. Total patch list: 145. Total patch list...
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Golden Mallard Challenge: May 2015
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The Original Patch List Challenge. Thursday, 28 May 2015. Worth fighting for. err. allegedly! It finally arrived last week - only five months or so late - and now sits in pride of place in a dark, little-noticed corner of the kitchen mantelpiece (Sybil flat-out refuses to have it on display in the living room. can't think why). The venerated Golden Mallard - finally home to roost. Which is a handy bonus, as it's more luck than judgement (my main birding strategy, truth be told) getting them on patch.
