Last few Days

A couple of Hours out with Kev on Monday saw us ringing a Brood of 3 Kestrel and 4 Gt Tit we then moved on to Peel where we set the Gull trap again, not many Gulls around but the weather was great so they were all off some where else 1 Herring Gull Caught then a  2nd year Gt Black-backed Gull landed in the middle of the trap and ate all the bread it stood there for 5 minutes until all that was left was the bread on the trigger. After what seemed like ages it pulled the bread. The first full grown GBB Gull to be ringed since we started the Large Gull colour ring Project.

Kestrel Pulli

2nd year Gt Black -backed Gull

A spot of Ringing in the garden was good as i started to catch a nice amount of newly fledged birds

Siskin, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Coal Tit, Gt Tit and Chaffinch.

29 Siskins ringed in the garden this year aged as 3J {Defiantly hatch this calendar year and still in Juvenile plumage}

3J Siskins

Yesterday Kev and i went back to the Cormorant Colony at Maughold

11 more Chicks Colour Ringed, some of them BIG and ready to fledge

The Colony is still busy with birds on Eggs and small young so we will go back 

68 Cormorants colour ringed here this year

In the afternoon i headed back up to the Point of Ayre to check on the Gull colony on the tip

8 More Herring Gull Chicks colour ringed, a stop off at Ramsey Harbour on the way home saw me grab another Herring Gull a 3rd Year bird and then 2 More ringed in the garden in the evening.

47 Herring Gulls Ringed in my Garden this Year so Far.

Herring Gull chick