Foxglove on the Boulder Field

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Part of the Foxglove team are currently in the extreme north west corner of Scotland and spent today on the boulder field below Clo Mhor, the highest cliffs on the UK mainland.

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The good news is that auk numbers, especially the Guillemots, seem to have rallied after the serious decline of recent years. The weather has been unusually kind allowing easy access to remote seabird colonies. Over 600 birds have neen ringed so far including Red-breasted Merganser, Sandwich, Arctic and Common Terns, Puffin, Razorbill and Guillemot.

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