Bardsey After Dark

 

This was something of an experiment: a camera trap placed outside the burrows of Manx shearwaters on Bardsey Island. Would the traps capture these illusive birds returning to their nest burrows under the cover of darkness? 

It did and there was also a bonus.

First here is a picture of the burrows in the daylight and an oystercatcher passing by.

And here are the shearwaters

And the bonus is an oystercatcher chick - another animal that is difficult to see (at least at this life stage).

And back to the Manx shearwater.