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