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Don’t bank on it, 2

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And we pick up yesterday’s blog on a boat to the Isle of May with gannets fishing around us… The sun had gone and I was glad that I had opted for a combination of short-sleeved shirt and jacket as an each-way bet on the weather.  You can’t bank on the weather over a five-hour…

Don’t bank on it, 1

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Having seen a rosefinch at Fife Ness on Tuesday, a trip to the Isle of May on Wednesday seemed a good bet. The May is famous for its seabirds,  and the studies of them which have been carried out there, and as a place for seeing migrants.  Just as Fife Ness reaches out to tired…