Day 11 - How to buy fish and see birds.

So Team 1 leave today. All the batons are now handed over and Team 2 are now left to prove themselves. So what better way to do that than a leisurely morning of ringing and then some fish buying from local fishermen?

The morning started well about 05.30 with 3 Lapland Bunting coming in before 8 o'clock and a couple of Arctic Redpoll. There was also the first appearance of a Sedge Warbler for the trip.

After furling at midday an elite foraging unit  headed to the harbour to acquire king crab and fish. The resulting haul radically altered the week's menu from pasta and anything that goes with pasta to anything that goes with cod:

Fish with rather unfortunate backdrop

George waits eagerly to hear how the Bird's Eye audition went

With the evening session dropped from the schedule there was plenty of time for some birding from the base. Shaun was best rewarded for his efforts with a merlin, two peregrines and a very close encounter with a gyrfalcon. He was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and was only a few feet from the bird. It definitely made eye contact with him whilst scoping out the hoodies for dinner. Depending on how much gets drunk tonight it may be that they exchanged addresses but we will have to wait to find out...

Today's totals were somewhat lower with there being no evening session although the morning was down in volume despite there being a steady flow of birds for everyone:

	20-Aug
Brambling	5
Common Redpoll	21
Arctic Redpoll	2
Lapland Bunting	6
Reed Bunting	1
Bluethroat	7
Meadow Pipit	11
Willow Warbler	23
Sedge Warbler	1
Redwing	1
New Birds
Species Count	10
Total	78