A local church arranged a 30 hour famine to raise funds for poverty
alleviation in the Bitou area. For a period of time, the participants did a
community service, and one group did a clean-up at bird island. Although
CapeNature and CoastCare had recently done a sweep of the peninsular, it was
already arranged and so I took full advantage of the available help. Charl and
Di were in charge of the cleanup and got me involved. Charl did 3 trips in his
boat to drop Di, Demi and myself along with 8 kids on Bird Island to spend
about 2 hours collecting rubbish. I did an introductory talk about the Kelp
Gulls and showed them some of the pellets that I had collected a few days
before and then set them loose to collect rubbish and keep a special look out
for regurgitated pellets. The time was successful indeed! I found another
bagful of pellets with the help of Demi, a cool rodent type skull and a washed
up gull egg, and also received an assortment of pellets from the extra helpers.
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| A Greater Flamingo, a rare sighting for this area. |
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| Some of the kids participating in the 30 hour famine, and the clean-up. |
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| The washed up egg. |
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| The unidentified skull. |
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