Two Great Excursions.

Sunday I got to spend the day with Susan and Julie, our recently arrived Biologists, watching them work on Bechervaise Island.  After retrieving some tracker units attached to snow petrels at a previous visit, they then split up and began a survey of the 400-odd marked snow petrel nests on the island.

Then, on Monday evening after dinner, I quadded with Dave, Ken and Cotty East along the coast to Welch Island.  After a rather steep walk up, we spent time just soaking in the view.  The height gave us an interesting perspective on the ice-berg calving that took place a week or two ago, and the birds that played on the updrafts around us were quite captivating.