Seabird ringing again today! The Observatory staff are making the most of this calm weather to get to the East Side and ring as many seabirds as possible while they are still young enough to catch. 

The team set off fairly late in the day at 15:00 and stumbled across an accessible Shag nest and so ringed them with darvic rings as well as metal rings, there were three birds in the brood but only two were large enough to ring. The north side of Bae Felon is where the vast majority of the ringing took place. 37 Guillemots were ringed in total, including six adults, mainly ringed by Josie, as she had the joyous job of crawling around between the boulders.

Hard to capture on camera but this is what is imaginatively named 'The Hole'. A deep, dark (and smelly) crevice amongst the boulders where Guillemots nest. 

A Ringed Plover was seen on the guided walk which is the first small wader in about a week now. A Buzzard was circling over the Lowlands in the morning, at the start of the season, there was some nesting activity going on with this species, but as the year has progressed we have been seeing less and less of them.