On 10.05.2013 we went to count nests to colonies on Palic lake, last year here were nesting around 1500 pairs of BHGs and about 150 Med gulls. This year we count 850 nests of BHG and 43 of Med gulls.
In first few minutes of this video you can see last year situation on the Palic lake island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sykyTqVD28c&t=190
So in a next few days I started to prepare rings and i was really hoping to use them all.
But then came rain and it was raining more than 3 weeks, so on 8th June we went to ringing chicks and we didn't belive that we find to many gulls. Rain and cold wheather came in wrong time. So there was no adult or pulli Med gulls. We catch around 25 BHG chicks on island and other chicks Armin and Ferenc catch on water, while me and Tamas ringing. At the end it was ringed only 53 BHGs, hope the next year will be better for breeding gulls.
Otto and Anna counting nests
In first few minutes of this video you can see last year situation on the Palic lake island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sykyTqVD28c&t=190
So in a next few days I started to prepare rings and i was really hoping to use them all.
But then came rain and it was raining more than 3 weeks, so on 8th June we went to ringing chicks and we didn't belive that we find to many gulls. Rain and cold wheather came in wrong time. So there was no adult or pulli Med gulls. We catch around 25 BHG chicks on island and other chicks Armin and Ferenc catch on water, while me and Tamas ringing. At the end it was ringed only 53 BHGs, hope the next year will be better for breeding gulls.
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