Strays Gb Rung Birds On Fishing Boat

[blue lad]

My next door neighbour has a fishing boat and are currently on standby duty.

And half dozen gb birds on board. Only problem is he is approximately 130 miles east of Dundee.He's got a week to go before he returns home.

If I get ring numbers I will post them up on site .That's what happens when a perigine goes into race birds along the coast. Wonder how many other are on rigs and boats this evening?

[john cumming]

Stevie

 

Usually we get a lot out with us but so far this year we have not seen a doo which is a rarety. Plenty owls. Sparrowhawks n a peregrine and the odd crow n hundreds of migrating birds. N we are directly east of fraserburgh on the Britannia platform

 

John

[blue lad]

Hi John my neighbour said this morning another 15 came off rigs and landed on boat as the half dozen were flying around.

He's not caught any as yet.

But feeding them rice and water on top of shelter deck . He's got a week to go.

Doesn't think there's enough rice for that amount of birds. As four Philippineos are

Going through more than a kg a peace per day. It's tragic.

[Blue Tooner]

What Boat Stevie? Is it the consortium?

[leslie24williams49]

Every rig should have a bag of birdseed on board, cheap enough these days do their thing for the environment, phillipinos won't be so eager to eat that stuff.