We've just finished the latest counts of seabirds around the coast of Ramsey. This year we've been concentrating on our auks; razorbills, guillemots and puffins.
Where we can, we count the birds from the land, sitting along the coast with binoculars and telescopes for many hours looking over the crowded ledges of the high sea cliffs. However, where we can't see the cliff faces from the land, we have to go out on a boat and look up from the water as we slowly float past. There aren't too many people that get to do bird surveys by jet boat!
We have yet to analyse all the data from the counts but will post the results here when have them.
We would like to thank Thousand Island Adventures and their very patient skippers and crew for yet again providing the boat to support our important monitoring activities around the island - we couldn't do it without them!