July is notoriously quiet for migrating birds with two Common Sandpipers, 13 Curlews, two Redshanks and a Sparrowhawk the only birds of note. The afternoon was spent ringing a brood of Rock Pipits at Bae Felen around the East Side of the Mountain before ringing two more Shag broods and colour ringing a few more Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks.
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Some late Lesser Black-backed Gulls are still hatching! © Ed Betteridge |
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A strikingly dark Lesser Black-backed Gull chick © Ed Betteridge |
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Manx Shearwater with chick in one of the caves © Ed Betteridge |
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One of four baby Rock Pipits colour ringed © Ed Betteridge |
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