Skomer

Its really interesting the differences between Skomer & Skokholm - Lesser Black-backs are having an amazing year on here, there's thousands of them! Every year we ring 500ish chicks, this year it only took 3 days - & only 1 of those was a full day. In 2008 after 5 full days searching I gave up having only ringed 16 chicks!

Herring Gulls look to have done well, but they always seem to do better than Lessers

Kittiwakes look like they've done quite well, but some colonies are really suffering from Great Black-back predation - they're really smart & leave them alone until they're just about ready to fledge before starting to eat them! I saw a female Peregrine pluck a big chick off a nest a couple of days ago as well & give it to it's chick.

Same as on Skokholm our Razorbills & Guillemots have virtually all gone in the last couple of days and there's amazing numbers of Puffins around in the evenings.

Migrant wise not much happening, we hardly get any waders on here - did see a Whimbrel yesterday, and been seeing 1 or 2 Hummingbird Hawk-moths most days for the last week or so