By 0500GMT on 9th September he was on the French coast at St Valery, then at the next two hourly locations was just north of the esturay of the River Seine. He then flew SSW passing Mayenn an 1200hrs and Nantes at 1500. He flew out over the Bay of Biscay from Les Sables-d’Olonne at 1630hrs and at 2000hr was nearly a 100km west of the Gironde coast. The next signal was not until 0900GMT on 11th when Rothiemurchus was perched on the north Spanish coast west of Ribadesella. The next signal at 1400hrs showed that he had reached his favourite stop-off near As Pontes de Garcia Rodriguez. A flight of over 1000 km