Saturday 22 June 2024

Little of note today apart from a Kestrel hunting the Mountain, a Sparrowhawk at Nant and a Lesser Redpoll at Ty Pellaf. The day was mainly spent monitoring the breeding birds with the first Choughs now fledgling and and the first Manx Shearwater eggs hatching. 

The afternoon was also spent searching for gull chicks in the long grass and bracken at the North End with a good number of Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks found and colour ringed. 

Lesser Black-backed Gull © Ed Betteridge

Lesser Black-backed Gull with all dark inner primaries © Ed Betteridge

Herring Gull showing pale inner primaries © Ed Betteridge 

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