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Friday 21st
With most people doing a day's work first, Phil was the only
one to arrive mid afternoon to get equipment ready. Kelvin
was next to arrive, reporting delays en route due to an accident
and resultant diversions. Rather than wait for any more arrivals
went off to set. The plan was for early arrivals to put 9
nets in the usual 'E' shape on the saltmarsh pools to the
east of the barn. With just two people to set this took some
time, complicated by one pole breaking. More people, also
delayed by the accident and diversion, arrived 18:30 and set
a further eight nets on pools directly out from the barn.
Having set, most returned to the base for food. Tape lures
were put in place shortly after 20:00 by which time 10 birds
were already in the easterly nets. There was no evidence of
any large flocks being present but both lines of nets caught
steadily until high tide, the tide just reaching the pools
the nets were set on.
Nets taken down shortly after high tide whilst a start was
made on processing.
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