Me and Kev went back to the small Cormorant colony at the gravel Pits yesterday. The rain stopped long enough for us to spend a few hours canoeing to the small island to ring the cormorants. As we left we noticed a lot of young Gulls on the water. We paddled towards them and managed to catch a few Common Gull chicks Greater Black-backed Gull Chicks, i say chicks (BIG)some were just about to fledge.
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| Greater Black backed Gull |
Common Gull Chick
Some of the Cormorants were still on eggs and very small chicks, 3 of the chicks we had ringed over 2 weeks ago were dead in the nest. This Summer has been bad news.
A great afternoon with Kev messing around in boats
Birds Ringed
Cormorants 9
Common Gull 4
Herring Gull 14
Greater Black-backed Gull 5
Today the sun came out in the afternoon so i canoed around to Maughold Lighthouse
2 More Herring Gull Chicks ringed
and another
Greater Black-backed Gull Chick
Me and Kev went back to the small Cormorant colony at the gravel Pits yesterday. The rain stopped long enough for us to spend a few hours canoeing to the small island to ring the cormorants. As we left we noticed a lot of young Gulls on the water. We paddled towards them and managed to catch a few Common Gull chicks Greater Black-backed Gull Chicks, i say chicks (BIG)some were just about to fledge.
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| Greater Black backed Gull |
Common Gull Chick
Some of the Cormorants were still on eggs and very small chicks, 3 of the chicks we had ringed over 2 weeks ago were dead in the nest. This Summer has been bad news.
A great afternoon with Kev messing around in boats
Birds Ringed
Cormorants 9
Common Gull 4
Herring Gull 14
Greater Black-backed Gull 5
Today the sun came out in the afternoon so i canoed around to Maughold Lighthouse
2 More Herring Gull Chicks ringed
and another
Greater Black-backed Gull Chick
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