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19 October 2010, 06:01
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Bird ringing on the Minquiers Reef
I took some ornothologists to the Minquiers at the weekend so they could catch and ring birds migrating south for the winter. Here's a short video of the trip:
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19 October 2010, 06:59
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I took some ornothologists to the Minquiers at the weekend so they could catch and ring birds migrating south for the winter. Here's a short video of the trip:
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set to private....
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19 October 2010, 09:17
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Quote:
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at the weekend so they could catch and ring birds .... Here's a short video of the trip:
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What goes on tour, stays on tour - eh? 
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19 October 2010, 09:49
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19 October 2010, 16:17
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Don't know what was going on there. Try this link:
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19 October 2010, 21:19
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Very interesting, thanks for posting that. How many people live on the Island?
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19 October 2010, 21:26
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None! Cottages are used mostly for weekends in the summer when the weathers good. The Minkies are nowhere near as popular as the Ecrehous reef for some reason. Someone counted 80 boats anchored at the Ecrehous at one point last summer 
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19 October 2010, 21:26
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Very interesting, thanks for posting that. How many people live on the Island?
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No-one lives there; it's uninhabited. The huts were built and used by fishermen years ago. I stayed in one myself for two weeks when I was fishing inside the reef during the 1980s.
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19 October 2010, 22:15
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So are the houses rented holiday cottages or just abandoned?
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20 October 2010, 05:58
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So are the houses rented holiday cottages or just abandoned?
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The huts are privately owned; two belong to the local government. They have become a kind of local status symbol. God knows why; they're all damp, pokey and hardly ever used.
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20 October 2010, 08:46
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They have become a kind of local status symbol. God knows why; they're all damp, pokey and hardly ever used.
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Sounds like the Floaterhomes in Fahan Marina 
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20 October 2010, 08:48
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Beach huts in S.Devon are making up to £100k. 
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20 October 2010, 14:31
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Huts at Les Ecrehous were changing hands for a few hundred quid in the '50s and '60s, nobody's letting go of them now but if they did I dread to think what some people over here would be willing to pay 
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