The Skomer Island Blog

Hi! I'm El, one of the long term volunteers on Skomer this July to September. After a day's delay due to poor weather conditions we ...

 If you were on the island in May or June, you may have noticed our staff carrying out lots of land and boat surveys – that’s because it was...

A guest blog from two volunteers; Mike and Ted Wallen who count Lesser Black-backed Gulls on Skomer every year:    We are honoured once ag...

The arrival of May has seen our seabirds starting to lay and our researchers are hard at work monitoring their productivity. But the changin...

So, how do we count the Atlantic puffin? Puffins massing on the Isthmus © Skomer Warden Unlike the majority of our seabirds, which are count...

Su’mae! My name is Lotti and I am one of the long-term volunteers (LTVs) on Skomer from April to July 2023!  I graduated in Zoology last y...