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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Aug 16

And quick as a flash, the 2025 seabird season is over! Surreal to to view Berneray, Mingulay and Pabbay in their full, resplendent glory from the the top deck of the CalMac ferry this morning.

WHAT a summer! 🤩👌👌👌

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Ellie Owen @ellingbry.bsky.social · Aug 14

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The ‘our ocean’ podcast has some great #seabird content including guillemot jumplings and gulls - menace or marvel :)
Find it wherever you get your podcasts.
#NTSseabirds

Seagulls - Menace or Marvel?

Podcast Episode · Our Ocean · 08/08/2025 · 39m

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Aug 9

Beautiful evening light on Mingulay 👌🦭🦭🦭🦭🦭

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 27

GO ON THE LIONESSES!!!!!!!!! 🏆🥇⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️💪🦶🥳🥳🥳🤩🤪🤪🤪

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 25

Feeling very lucky to have this as an office ☀️ 🌊

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 24

Cracking afternoon down in the southwest corner of Mingulay, looking out to a Berneray/Barra Head 🤩

Could hear one corncrake still crex-crexing #notgoneyet

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 23

Good haul of Grey Seals on Mingulay beach this morning. Love hearing them singing 🦭 🎶 🎵 🦭 🎶 🎵 🦭 🎶 🎵

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 18

July is peak month for Dark Green fritillary butterflies on Mingulay and I am HERE FOR IT! 🧡🟠🧡🟠🧡🟠🧡🟠🧡🟠

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 17

Super smashing to have Kirsty Marshall from Species on the Edge on Mingulay for a few days.

Kirsty is surveying the bumblebees here, including Moss Carder Bumblebees that she caught this afternoon in the old village. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 16

A beautiful evening in Mingulay Bay 👌🌊✨

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 15

Fulmar chicks are getting old enough to be left unguarded by the adults on Mingulay now. Their presence is GREATLY cheering up the seabird cliffs as the auks are fledging and leaving the ledges looking very empty. 🐣🐦🤩🌊

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 14

Cracking couple of Garden Tigers in the Mingulay moth trap last night 🐅 🐅 🤩👌

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St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · Jul 13

intimate views of the #StKilda Gannet colony are a rare privilege, due mainly to difficult access, but we were able to land on Boreray a couple of weeks ago in order to conduct a census, for which the results will be shared when analysed. Glorious seabirds! 😍
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 13

Always exciting to unpack the moth trap in the mornings. 22 Burnished Brass moths was a great haul today - they’re loving the nettles and thistles 🤩

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 12

THIS LOOKS GOOD 👀

Barra & Vatersay Outdoor Ranger Service @barraranger.bsky.social · Jul 12

This Wednesday another great opportunity to go on a nature walk with Barrabirder.

The last nature walk was a great experience and they even saw a short-eared owl and a corncrake.

These will be weekly walks through the summer so please watch out for them on this page.

Advert for the walks Wednesday 16th July, 7pm. Park at Eoligarry Cemetery, walk will be max of 2.5 miles and 2hrs. Bring sturdy footwear and binoculars if you have them. Max 12 people to Book phone 01871817948 £10 each

Short-eared owl perched on a branch looking directly at the camera

People along the side of the road looking into a field with binoculars

People on a beach standing in a circle listening to Bruce talk about the birds.

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 12

Beauty of a day on Mingulay 👌👌

View from the top of Hecla peak at 219m. Looking out to Berneray/Barra Head in the south west and Pabbay, Sandray,Vatersay and Barra in the north. Two swifts for company at the top 🤩🐦☀️☀️☀️

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St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @stkildawhs.bsky.social · Jul 6

One of many young Fulmars taking shelter under their parents during a grey and drizzly couple of days on #StKilda this weekend. #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 10

A day playing the sound of calling European Storm Petrels into crevices in rocky boulder fields. If storm petrels are breeding on Mingulay, there’s a chance the real birds will call back to our portable speaker.

No luck today, but a brilliant way to explore the magical island 🤩

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 9

Another spectacular evening watching guillemot chicks on their maiden jumps to the sea below.

Godspeed little champion auk nuggets ☄️ 💥 💪

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 8

The smiling faces of 3 people who witnessed guillemot chicks fledge from the cliffs last night.

SUCH a privilege to follow these birds from egg laying in early May, to hatching, rearing chicks and to see them successfully fledging.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!!

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 6

Fab NTS volunteers Kate and Yvette helping to collect guillemot diet study data.

Sandeels and Clupeids (herring and sprats) seemed to be the most numerous fish being fed to chicks today 🐥 🐟

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 5

Out on the seabird cliffs with NTS volunteers Kate and Yvette today. They’ve been completely brilliant at helping to monitor the Kittiwakes on Mingulay. Chicks ahoy! 🐣🐥🐣🐥🐥🐥🐣🐥🐣🐥🐣🐥🐥

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jul 4

A dreich day has meant that our fab NTS volunteers have been making and deploying chocolate wax blocks as a biosecurity tool for assessing if rats are here.

Rats would be enticed by the chocolatey smell and would leave teeth marks in the wax blocks.

Thankfully none found in our bait stations!🐀 ❌

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Liz @elalmoliz.bsky.social · Jun 29

Pufflings first weigh-in on #stkilda part of long term puffin monitoring. #SuperSeabirdSunday #NTSseabirds @stkildawhs.bsky.social

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Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social · Jun 28

Garden Corncrake update: we have chicks! 🐣🐣🐥🐣🐥🐣🐥🐥

They are HIGHLY entertaining as they run around exploring their new garden home! 😀

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