13/12/14 780 Guillemots on my survey ledges

780 Guillemots this morning. Most birds have now moulted into summer plumage, but there are still some that are still moulting. 

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Catching-up with my Guillemot counts...

 All those moulting Guillemots have kept me busy for the last few weeks. The last couple of days have been windy - too windy to take video - but it has given me time to catch-up. Here are the counts for the last month:

• 09/12/14 534 Guillemots on ledges
• 08/12/14 0+ Guillemots on ledges, (no count of Grand Falls Zawn, F6)
• 06/12/14 151+ Guillemots on ledges, (only Jenny's Cove counted), 25 minutes video.
• 30/11/14 623 Guillemots on ledges, 23 minutes video, peregrine eating immature gull.
• 27/11/14 285+ Guillemots on ledges (only Jenny's Cove counted), 35 minutes video, one bird with leg ring.
• 23/11/14 928 Guillemots on ledges, 15 minutes video
• 18/11/14 239+ Guillemots on ledges (only Jenny's Cove counted), 35 minutes video.

 

15/11/14 - 516 Guillemots on survey ledges

Light SE winds this morning, but still a big swell at Jenny's Cove after the storms of the last few days.

516 Guillemots on my survey ledges. More birds have moulted into breeding plumage. I've took 20 minutes of video this morning and I hoping to take some more footage tomorrow.

1 Common Snipe flushed on my way back to the village.

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09/11/14 - around 500 Guillemots on survey ledges

Around 490-520 Guillemots, I forgot my tripod so the counts were ballpark figures. There were more birds on ledges that I don't survey. Over 700 on a photographic count.

The Fulmars were back again, in Jenny's Cove and near Battery Point. The Fulmars in Skokholm were first seen today.

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05/11/14 - Guillemots moulting into 'summer' plumage.

No counts of Guillemots today, I tried to get some head images of the moulting birds. Here's a bridled bird from Jenny's Cove.

Some birds have almost completed their moult, whereas others are still white-headed.

No Fulmars in Jenny's Cove today.

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Images from 19-28 October

A few images by Richard Campey, from our nine-day trip to Lundy. Details of birds seen already posted. Images here of Waxwing at the top of Millcombe,  Firecrest in Quarter Wall Copse, Snow Bunting on the track between Quarter Wall and Halfway Wall and a Sparrowhawk being chased by a Raven off the East Side.

04/11/14 Fulmars back in Jenny's Cove

04/11/14 The first Fulmars have returned to Jenny's Cove - 10 on land and 15 in the air this morning. Also 398 Guillemots on my survey ledges

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