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| 12. May 2010 Tórshavn Council picked out Jens-Kjeld to be the Environmental friend of the year and handed him the price of a check of 10.000 kr. | |||||||||||
| At the gathering a member of the Council held this speach: "Jens-Kjeld has spent his whole life and put all his soul in his work with the Faroese wildlife and nature. Apart from doing a lot of scientific research he has been able to pass on his big knowledge to papers, scientific papers, television, tourists and other interested. He really deserves this path the shoulder". | |||||||||||
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| Nathusius’s Pipistrelle Bat Pipistrellus nathusii found on Nólsoy 16.01.2010 | |||||||||||
| 16. januar 2010 Mikkjal Holm found an almost dead Nathusius’s Pipistrelle Bat hanging on the wall of the grocery Matvørubúðin, owned by Hervør Hansen, Nólsoy. It was a male with the weight of only 5.5g. This is the second Nathusius’s Pipistrelle Bat ever found in the Faroes in January - the first was found in Sumba, Suðuroy 09.01.1992. |  |
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The men from Nólsoy went to hunt hares
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In 2009 the annual day for hunting hares was 07. November. 22 men participated and they shot 50 hares. We met as usually at kl. 08 at the local fire station. The weather was very fine in the morning, but already kl. 09.30 it started dripping from above and an half hour later it rained heavy. Kl. 12.30 it was blowing heavily from Northeast. In spite of the very bad weather 50 hares were shot in 99 shots. The best marksman that day was Búgvi Jacobsen, who shot 7 hares in 7 shots. |
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Hunting on Nólsoy |
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It is a common practice to shoot young Great Black-backed Gulls for dinner in Nólsoy. Unusually many were seen the last 14 days of September 2007, and 25. Sep. Ivan and Mikkjal Holm shot as many as 64 birds, which most probably must be the highest amount ever shot in only one day in Nólsoy |  |
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In the summer of 2006 the fabulous artist Olivier Kugler traveled from Shetland to Faroe Islands, Iceland and USA and ended in Cuba. While he was in Faroe Islands he made some marvellous sketches with motives from for example Hattarvík and Nólsoy, which have been printed in The Guardian. You can see 32 different pages with his sketches from his journey here: http://www.olivierkugler.com/travel/ Remember to use the F11 button on the keyboard to be able to turn the pages. |
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The men from Nólsoy went to hunt hares
22. November 2008 |
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In 2007 the annual hunt for hares was 03. November. The weather was absolutely perfect that day. 27 men participated and they shot 69 hares. On average they used 3 shots on each hare, and the best marksman that day was Mikkjal Holm, who got 4 hares with 4 shots. The average weight of the hares was 2758 g, and the heaviest was a female, with a weight of 3275 g. |
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The hunters from Nólsoy caught Fulmar young ones 19.08.05 |
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THE ANNUAL HUNT FOR FULMAR YOUNG ONES ON NÓLSOY |
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A normal catch would have been app. 50 young ones, but this time only 43 young ones were taken. Furthermore 10 of the nests were empty, although there were traces of small feathers. A hunting number of 43 young ones in total is not that bad, but that was the only positive thing! Perhaps 6-7 young ones would have been fledged in app. 1 week, and 5-7 probably in 14 days. The others were so small and miserable, that they would never have been able to get that far – they would have been dead! I believe, that the young ones from the 10 empty nests have died (from starvation?); where after gulls and other hungry birds have eaten them. I have not seen anything like this in the last 15 years, and if the situation is the same throughout the Faroes, then the hunt for young ones on the sea - which is about to start, will be very limited! |
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The view from our kitchen window at appr. 6.30 p.m. |
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Summer in Nólsoy. |
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Winter in Nólsoy |
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