An Edinburgh adventurer has been busy scraping bird poo off a ledge on Rockall as he settles down to spend the next two months on the isolated rock.

Nick Hancock plans to live solo in a tiny pod, made out of a converted water tank, perched on the only ledge on the desolated outcrop.

The pod is secured to lashing points installed into the isolated rock, 260 miles west of the Hebrides, by three Greenpeace campaigners who set the current occupation record of 42 days in 1997.

On Sunday, the chartered surveyor was setting up a wind turbine to charge his various items of communications equipment.

He sent his first selfie from inside the pod and said a predicted spell of good weather would let him get on with his list of tasks setting up equipment for what he hopes will be a record-breaking 60 days on the rock.

In a Skype call on Saturday afternoon to a member of his support team in Stornoway, he said a seabird had deposited a load of poo over him. He decided to take that as a good omen, however.

In addition a gannet regurgitated the fishy contents of its stomach all over his pod deck

The 39-year-old had to clean up the mess as a ledge slippery with poo and vomit could prove disastrous.

Guano clean-up for Rockall adventurer 8/6/14

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Nick Hancock hopes to stay on Rockall for 60 days