30 hour famine

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.

A Greater Flamingo, a rare sighting for this area.

Some of the kids participating in the 30 hour famine, and the clean-up.

The washed up egg.

The unidentified skull.