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Black   guillemot  update

27/6/2014

 
Foto© Andrew Allen
In the past month we have been paying regular visits to the islands that have breeding guillemots. We put out some nest-boxes in the hope they would be used by black guillemots. So far only one is used by a black guillemot and one is used by a northern wheatear....

Although there are about 40 pairs of black guillemots about, we were only able to locate  25 nests, of which 15 are now followed by camera. We further started ringing adults and 4 are now walking around with a green ring. The young have started hatching just over a week ago, so let's hope all goes well! The cameras take lots of pictures and videos and we are able to see adults paying frequent visits to the nests and bringing in lots of fish.

                      Guarding the nest                                         and the nest is......                                        bringing a large fish

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