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[31 st January 1957] the sand to some tussocks and shrubs 
where I put up some snipe and came 
across a fairly small SILVER GULL 
ROOKERY. There were eggs, small 
chicks and larger young running 
off to the water. Then I came across 
a dead gull, a first year 
bird, which had a fish hook 
in its lower mandible and a ring 
on its right leg which I carefully 
removed (as well as the two hooks). 
I then retraced my steps to 
the other end of the long arc of 
an island the centre of which was 
very shallow water on sand and 
mud which provided good feeding 
for innumerable TEAL and various waders. 
A pair of CASPIAN TERNS, flew round me, 
obviously nesting out on their own but 
no nest was found. I walked out 
onto the shallows and saw a flock 
of 17 Godwit and, as I was out 
there CURLEWS, starting coming in 
