Its chough breeding season so it's time to survey our local breeding choughs on the island. Each year we try and identify each pair of choughs that breed in various locations around bardsey, but how do we identify each bird as an individual you may ask.......
Each bird has its own unique color ring combination consisting of four rings, two on each leg. Three are colored and one is a standard metal BTO ring, using a scope or binoculars these rings are readable in the field. Having these on the legs of the local breeding choughs means we can keep track of who each bird is, where they have been and who they are partnered with, it also means we can identify the birds that are not residents of bardsey, providing useful information about their movements.
An example of some of the color rings, there are solid colors as well as stripes.
Guests and day visitors are also starting to pick up this time of year so Emma is hard at work putting the shop and its stock back together.
Keeping and eye on the proceedings.
Unbelievably its finally starting to warm up now, still quiet on the birding side of things but enjoying the warmth.
Another resident who is enjoying some of the warm spells.
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