Well folks, the field season is coming to an end! We’ve been in a dizzying tizzy of work these last few days: measuring chicks for both the penultimate and then ULTIMATE (!!!!) time, obtaining our mid-chick-rearing stress hormone samples and hunting for our redeployed TimeDepthRecorders (TDRs) all in our blustery “windswept” colony. Other highlights included collecting samples for a colleague in the Greenland team (Jerome Fort) (feathers, measurements, diet samples) with the help of Adam and Mateusz Barcikowski (father and son), 48-hour continous observations of feeding birds, data entry… and Nina’s last night late night birthday celebration! We will continue to make posts about these many activities and about the Greenland side of the study. And with that I will make my (sad) adieu to Hornsund and our adolescent, very aukward chicks!
