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Puffin Island seabird ringing season ended with the team catching & colour ringing Kittiwakes as well as ringing chicks in nest. Numbers up on previous years but still lower than a decade ago. Some sat tags fitted last year retrieved & new ones deployed #seabirds #birdringing

We usually catch a few Puffins each year on Puffin Island. There’s only about 30-40 breeding pairs. A 20 year old retrap was pretty cool. Highlight was a Puffling. The nest burrows are so deep, in fissures in the limestone, we can’t usually reach them #seabirds #birdringing

Song Thrushes become so secretive during breeding season. I saw an adult feeding two young on snails it broke using an anvil in our garden early y’day. Must have nested nearby as newly fledged. Quick search found 2 anvils

Quick video showing the carnage in our porch where Brown Long-eared Bats dismember their moth prey!

A real surprise Hilbre Bird Obs today when this very juvenile Wheatear was trapped & ringed. I don’t recall seeing one this young on the island before #birdringing

Juv Rock Pipit CBV was the latest to be colour ringed Hilbre Bird Obs today as part of our long term study. We’re already getting some fascinating results. 33 colour ringed birds have generated nearly 200 sightings

8 species of butterfly recorded Hilbre Bird Obs today including a few stunning Common Blue. Large White, Green-veined White, Red Admiral, Small, Tortoiseshell, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper & a Large Skipper #cheshirebutterflies

This Rock Pipit was ringed as a juv on 30.07.20 Hilbre Bird Obs by our chairman Chris Williams Hilbre* . It was retrapped today, sexed as male in breeding condition & colour ringed. It was retrapped soon after it was originally ringed but not seen since #hilbrebirdobs #birdringing

A beautiful sunny day Hilbre Bird Obs today surrounded by the call of juv Sandwich Terns begging for food off parents. Lots of butterflies around and lots of Six-spot Burnett Moths nectaring on thistle flowers

Delicate blue Harebells are in flower Hilbre Bird Obs at the moment. Commonly known in folklore as ‘Witches Thimbles’ or ‘fairy bells’.

Common Centaury in flower Hilbre Bird Obs today

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Male Common Blue providing a splash of halcyon blue Hilbre Bird Obs today. One of 10 species of butterfly recorded

The passage of Common Sandpipers Hilbre Bird Obs continues. This bird surprised me in the west side so just time for a quick record shot

Large Skipper Hilbre Bird Obs today.

2 juvenile Stonechats were a surprise Hilbre Bird Obs this morning in the Obs garden. The nearest they breed is Red Rocks nature reserve. After posing for photos they promptly disappeared

Barn Owl in our garden at 10.30 pm last night. Haven’t seen or heard them since spring

Noticed an unusual looking lump beneath our bird feeders last night & went to investigate. Chuffed to find this Hedgehog. They’ve been scarce locally in recent years

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One of the juvenile Great-spotted Woodpeckers, ringed a few weeks ago in our garden, looking for ants on the lawn