Hilbre Bird Observatory

Not many seabirds today considering the wind was quite strong from the west, just 3 Gannets, 1 juvenile Kittiwake and a single Sandwich tern...

Great Spotted Woodpecker averages about one bird a year at Hilbre usually in late autumn, so it was a surprise when one appeared suddenly to...

The first Common Sandpipers of the autumn (yes, for some species its autumn already!) spent the morning around the tide edge rocks (above). ...

A fairly strong north westerly produced records of 40 Gannets, 2 Guillemots and a Common Scoter. At low tide yet another all time record cou...

Highlight of today were 3 Manx Shearwaters seen fairly closely on a south westerly breeze. Just 2 Sandwich Terns seen and passing through du...

Single female Scoter (left) and Eider were off the west side at the ebb tide this morning and 10 Gannets were out to sea early with 3 Great ...

The young of 3 species that bred on the island were ringed today : - Carrion Crow (left), Wren (right) and Meadow Pipit (below left). An out...

A massive wreck of jellyfish was found deposited by the tide today on the shorelines of Hilbre and the Red Rocks area. They consisted mostly...