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No eels please

Black guillemot are known round here as tystie, which is a northern name, and you have to come up north to see ‘em. All the other seabirds depend on sand eels and as the sand eels fluctuate so do the numbers of seabirds. But the black guillemots very sensibly don’t go for sand eels they go for butterfish. There’s one just flying in beautifully, with a great, big butterfish. They look as though they’ve already been filleted don’t they, butterfish? It’s beautiful.

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