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Norway Photo Tour with Mike Brown
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Booking form on the way out to me next week :D I’m going for the first trip.
joe_elway wrote:
Booking form on the way out to me next week :D I’m going for the first trip.
Aidan,
Really looking forward to seeing your photos from this trip.
You will have to give us a demo at one of the club meetings! :wink:Ah! Didn’t realise the trips were next year. I’ve just mailed Mike. It would be some trip indeed!!
Just had a mail from Mike. The 1700 doesn’t include flights :cry: Janey! Rethink methinks!!
Thanks Aidan. I think I still might go but in a family situation it is a difficult decision. I can rent a house on Valentia Island for three weeks for near enough three days in Norway and get free trips to the Skelligs thrown in. Hmm. The sooner they let those white tailed boyos loose over here the better :)
Booking form and deposit were dropped in the post box today. 15 months and counting.
Some amazing footage of the “Flying Barn Door” here: http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Haliaeetus_albicilla/more_moving_images.html
Problem when they’re released in Ireland is that they’ll have both unsightly and necessary wing tags and ringed legs.
Yeah… but it’s better than not having them here at all. Maybe if they are successful then NPWS or whoever is running things will be able to reduce that program. It’s waay more important for them to succeed here than for the likes of me to get a shot … anyway it gives us more opportunity to show off our cloning skills :-)
EDIT: is there any word on the program. I remember reading that local farmers had made a political issue of objecting to the introduction. Bertie allegedly threw his weight behind the re-introduction.
there are other problems too with the release here
I was told the other day that where they plan to release them is very close to a colony of another bird, I forget which one. The person told me there are lots of objections because the eagles with destroy this other colony which in itself is quite rare if thats the right way to explain it
Hmm…. they don’t predate on other birds. Mostly fish, small mammals and carrion.
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