Ringing Storm Petrels at sea.

On Friday night / Saturday morning we set about to catch and ring Storm petrels from the boat at sea . The lads that came over to do the ringing managed to ring 20 Storm Petrels by playing their call over a loud speaker they also tried Wilsons petrel which was one of the target birds as they have never been caught or ringed in british waters but no luck this time.

A shoal of Mackerel and a Garfish

I took this short video of a shoal of mackerel and a garfish on yesterdays shark fishing trip using my underwater camera on a pole.

Willow Warbler

I had a quick walk around Porth-Hellick after work and saw quite a few Willow Warbler.

Shark's

We caught and released another 2 Blue Sharks last night and just before going out I saw this Basking Shark near St Agnes.

European Storm Petrel

Sooty Shearwater

Adult Gannet & 1st Summer Gannet

A few images from last night Pelagic

Female Marsh Harrier

A couple of photos from the Annet trip I did yesterday the Marsh Harrier spends most of its either on Samson or Annet . And the puffin's were out in force getting ready for there departure in the next week or so. Most of the Razor Bills have gone as well as the Guilemot's.

Atlantic Grey Seal

                            One of several seals that were around the Eastern Isles on Thursday afternoon.

Blue Shark

One of the Blue Sharks from Thursday nights trip.

Sooty Shearwater

This Sooty Shearwater was on sat on the water on last  nights pelagic trip we also had a Bonxie on the way in and tagged and released 3 Blue Sharks.

Blue Shark

1 of 3 Blue Sharks Caught tagged then released last night.

Razor Bill & Juvenile Shag

A couple of photos from a trip to Round Island I did yesterday.

Adult Sabines Gull

Adult Sabines Gull

Cory Shearwater

Bonxie

Here are a few photos from last nights pelagic trip which was very productive but unfortunately the weather wasn't up to much with a south westerly force 6-7 and wet but the birds didn't mind with 1x Corys Shearwater 1x Adult Sabines Gull 1x Pom Skua 1x Wilsons Storm Petrel 1x Bonxie 50+ Storm Petrels and we also tagged 1 blue shark.

Manx Shearwater

Puffin

This Puffin was one of many out the western rocks last week.

The One Show

For any one interested in wildlife the One Show are showing 5 short programs on the Isles of Scilly wildlife starting tonight at 7pm BBC1 including Shark tagging which will be on Thursdays program.

Perigrine Falcon

It was good to see that are resident Perigrine falcons have produced 2 young birds this year after failing to have any last year.

Blue Shark

This is a still i took off a video of a Blue Shark from Mondays Pelagic trip .

Manx Shearwater

This was one of about 50 Manx shearwaters off Scilly rock this morning.