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Stunning day up at the grey faced petrel burrows yesterday with Cathy Mitchell. With Cathy's help we were able to find two more chicks bringing this years gfp chick number to 6 in the study site. I did find two more chicks outside of the study site also, in a new site I discovered a month ago...it has 9 burrows located there so will hopefully be a good breeding site in future years too. Our study site had 10 chicks last year that successfully fledged. It seems that this year several of the burrows that had adults did not go onto lay eggs as very little nesting material was found in those burrows. I also found a complete/ intact egg in one burrow suggesting the adult never made it back to incubate....and also showing very low predation as that egg has sat there intact for a couple of months and not been taken by a predator.
I will keep you all posted as to how our chicks do this year.
If any of you do not get my rangers' reports please email me to go on the mailing list...the reports are full of cool info, stories and photos as well as statistics of our predator and species monitoring work. bhctrangers@gmail.com
Have a great day ya'll...Adam Willetts. Project manager/head ranger, BHCT.
