Field notes, v1442
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LIDICKER 1971 Rayland, via the A40 through Brecon & Carmarthen to Haverfordwest. Stags!! After lunch I went to Martins Haven where we were to get a boat to Stokkholm Island. The boatman had not yet arrived and the wind was blowing stiffly from the coast. We walked up onto the headland & the back to the barrow. About 10 the boatman arrived (David's David's) (Terry Davies from St. ). The weather was clearing a little but the wind was still strong. At 11:15 he left for Skomer Island with a load of "day trippers", promising to return for me. We waited until noon and when David returned we loaded on gear. Around Martins Haven we saw: Pied Wag-tail, Robin, Reven-2, Jack-dawn, Dunrock, Yellowhammer, Linnets, possibly the Twite, Buzzard -1, Gannets, Cormorant (I caught a nice starey a large fish in the haven), Domestic pigeon, Sweller, Lambs tongue Wood pigeon, Capercaillie-2g. flock. On my way to catch some clams & shag. The trip out was very rough & we all got soaking wet. We had to land at the "north landing" on Stokkholm which is just a slippery shelved point of rocks below a cliff. (The south landing is a better one, but moves little when easterly & easterly winds are blowing which they were then - strongly). After a rather precarious landing we carried our gear up the cliffs to the Bird Observatory, had lunch about 2 pm. Beated up 100 Longwells right a track 50 to the right-hand side on the south end of the island, around