Ramsey Sound - sooty shearwater, little gulls, Med gulls and colour-ringed kittiwake

The local feeding flock of several hundred small gulls in Ramsey Sound included mainly kittiwakes and black-headed gulls but also several common gulls, a few adult winter plumage Med gulls (no legs seen today, so not sure if any were ringed) and at least three little gulls (two first winter birds and a second winter bird) - excellent views of them all from the coast path near Treginnis Copper Mines.

It clearly pays to take photos, as one of the first winter kittiwakes (when the images were looked at later) turned out to be ringed - left leg: red/blue/metal; right leg: blue/red.

The photos were not brilliant and the upper part of the right leg could not be viewed properly to see if there was a third ring on this leg. As far as we can tell, there are no inscriptions on the rings. The details have been reported and hopefully we'll get some details to report later.

The other nice bird today was a sooty shearwater. This was noted by Annie (watching from St Justinian) between Ramsey and Gwahan. It was in a mixed flock of auks, gulls and shags at around mid-day. Not much else of note really, other than a flock of 15 wigeon that went through the sound at around lunch-time.