So it is all happening here on Skokholm with baby chicks everywhere. We have shell ducklings, herring gull chicks, oystercatcher chicks, buzzard chicks, short eared owl chicks and puffin chicks! It is a baby boom. In a few days time we will be ringing...

So this week has been jam packed with seabird work. Everyday has been busy with one task or the other. These have been; great black back gull nest monitoring and pellet collecting, fulmar nest monitoring, puffin burrow occupancy and ring colour codes...

So having all ready spent 6 weeks on the island you might think that I had seen it all or was perhaps bored of it. You would be wrong! I enjoy a walk in the morning around the island and if the weather isn't too great (a sting wind) or as now is the case...

As we have entered into May we have continued to have stunning weather, with the only exception of two days. The flowers around the neck are gorgeous and as you are walking around you can smell them too. There is a variety of sea campion, meadow campion,...

So I have been here for one month now! Time is flying by and yet it feels like I've been here ages (in a good way). This last week has been busy watching ringed puffins at crab bay and determining which burrows are occupied. This means a couple of hours...