Friday 17 June 2011

Breeding COMMON TERNS

Pleased to confirm the new raft went out on to Wilstone on Saturday, Well done to Mike Collard for raising the money and to everyone who contributed. We checked the other rafts on Thursday and counted 34 chicks, they were quite well advanced so we decided not to risk approaching them to ring them.The double-raft had 18 large chicks, the single HMWT raft held 6+ large chicks and the second (slightly listing) HMWT raft held 6 large and 4+ small chicks. I suspect there were more chicks than this, so if anyone has a higher count please let me know (Lynne Lambert)

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