The story started with a routine visit to the lighthouse,the nest was nearly completed and if the weather had been less windy the nest would have been removed,however on the next visit I saw the three eggs and left things to take there natural course. Subsequent visits saw two fledglings,then down to the one bird,this one became entangled in the nest and by its size I can only presume that the parent birds continued to feed it,shortly after I released it all the birds had moved on and the nest was removed.

Wednesday 4th May 2005 Three eggs

Friday 6th May 2005 One egg two fledglings

Sunday 22nd May 2005 One rather large "baby"

Wednesday 8th.June "Baby" grown up

Wednesday 8th.June 2005 Parent Bird

All photographs Copyright Fred Fox.