The Pembrokeshire ringing group and former Skomer Wardens Anna and Steve Sutcliffe have been monitoring and ringing the breeding Shags on Middleholm since 1985. This year Ed and I were able to join in and we had the most amazing time scrambling around the island looking for nests and ringing the chicks.
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| Lovely Middleholm |
We found 23 nest sites and we ringed 25 chicks from 9 nests which equates to 2.78 chicks fledging per pair – a high productivity level. This is good news as the Shags have not been doing well in recent years.
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| Shag chicks in the nest |
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| "Be careful, they have long beaks..." |
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| Happy chick back in the nest |
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| The proud parents |
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| And a chick from last year with ring (on the left) |
Bee (Skomer Warden) and Pia Reufsteck (Pictures)
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