The conference started full swing. After introductions, there was a plenary session from Henri Weimerskirch which was an intense presentation of data comparing forganing strategies of seabird species between the tropics and temperate zones. It was a bit of a shock for me to go from thinking about edging skis to lots of detailed technical information. His was one of a number of papers describing sexy work derived from attachments of data loggers, satellite tags and other gizmos. One speaker in the session questioned how many people are doing the basics of checking the impacts of the devices on the seabirds themselves. Not many is the unfortunate answer.
I got to see a bit of the grounds and took a look at the beach (George had taken a walk along the beach during the day). There were a few waders on the rocks, including Surfbirds, Black Turnstone, Glaucous-winged Gull. The grounds had a number of Acorn Woodpeckers flying about, squawking like parakeets. Some deer, presumably Mule Deer, which seemed very tame, and a Red-shouldered Hawk which seemed oblivious to people watching it, perhaps enjoying the attention.
I didn’t join the social events in the evening, and instead went through my talk a couple of times in preparation for tomorrow.
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