Got home mid-afternoon (Tuesday) and, by a happy coincidence, Bill Oddie's Springwatch programme was on TV that evening and included a report from Simon King on the stormie breeders at Mousa Broch [Shetland Islands, UK].
He was saying how much he loved the "gentle cacophany" of their nesting calls and a local veteran birder told him that he thought it sounded like "fairies....uh........vomiting". You know, rrrretch, rrretch, rrretch, eugh, eugh !!!
Happy hunting -- Niall
The storm petrel nest site at Mousa Broch, Shetland
http://www.shetland-heritage.co.uk/brochures/area_pages/south_mainland/mousa_broch.htm
...and the stormies are here!
http://www.hughharrop.com/articles/storm-petrels.html
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