Guilly the guilimot eat well yesterday morning but then refused to eat anymore, I tried to give it water through a syringe (without the needle..) but it was causing too much stress. I have contacted the local Ranger,who gave me the number of a woman in Ullapool who treats injured birds. She was out when I rang so left a message for her to call me back. She didn't.
This morning, I decided that Guilly was perky enough for release, and that having had rest and shelter for a couple of days, would now do better by itself. I walked a mile, carrying it in my arms, to a sheltered bay, and released him into a small pool near the waters edge. He scuttled away, and scrambled over some rocks, looking very unsteady, then the sudden transformation. He fell off the rock into the open sea, dipped his head under water and took a few swigs of sea water, shook his head, and then dived, surfacing 15 or so feet away and further out to sea. Several dives over the next couple of minutes, and it was virtually out of sight. Each time it surfaced, it gave a call, looking for other guillimots.
I watched untill I couldn't see him anymore, then walked back along the beach loking for treasure..
