Calf Of Man (1959)

L, S of an island it is the Calf of Man a small island off the Isle of Man. Various shots of the island landscape from a moving boat. Shots of the many gulls that live there. C, U of a baby bird and another just about to hatch from an egg. A woman clambers around the edge of the cliff. She is one of only two people who live on the island her name is Dido Brun. She holds a bucket and is collecting eggs. Narrator makes a joke about dropping the bucket and having scrambled eggs. The island is a bird sanctuary and Dido helps her husband who is the warden to trap, measure and ring a wide variety of birds. Dido and her husband uses long sticks to beat a section of ground to drive the birds into a special net called a mist net. The warden disentangles a bird from the mesh as his wife looks on. They place the bird in a small bag then take it to their open air laboratory to place a ring on its leg. The bird is weighed, it is ringed then released. This identification serves as a permanent record