Wednesday 1 June 2011

Strangford Cormorants

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 Timothy Belmont has had a field day on several islands of Strangford Lough. I will write a full article tomorrow; though in the interim I have pleasure in posting one picture of cormorant chicks on Bird Island (west of Kirkubbin).

We counted 437 cormorant nests on the island.

2 comments :

Louise Corry said...

Are you allowed on Bird Island whilst they are breeding? I thought everyone was banned.

Timothy Belmont said...

A good point.

The warden explained to me that the National Trust conducts the nest-counting programme on behalf of government authorities, even on private islands.

EU Directives permit this for statistics on bird population numbers etc.

So yes, the general public is indeed banned.