The Hilbre Rock Pipit colour ringing project is slowly making progress with 6 birds now being individually marked. The benfits of this project can already be seen with several sightings of colour ringed birds being made 'in the field' around the island.
Five of these are adults and so far we've marked one juvenile. Hopefully we'll get a few more before they start dispersing. The adult Rock Pipit in the photo below is ringed wit ha BTO ring on its left leg and the ring is barely visible. Colour ringing gives us much more chance of seeing these birds and recording them in the field rather than only being able to read the metal ring number in the hand
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| Adult Rock Pipit |
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| Juvenile Rock Pipit |
We've had some nice butterfly sightings recently. Both Wall and Small heath are scarce vagrants to the islands and both were recorded on the same day recently. Common Blues are also on the wing.
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| Wall |
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| Small Heath |
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| Common Blue |
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