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Puffins are back! They have just started to land ashore again after a winter at sea. Soon they will be finding their mates again and getting burrows ready for eggs which will incubate for 40 days. Some of these birds won't have been on land for the last 4 years!
Isle of May, Scotland, April 2025
My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...
This is SPARTA!!
Crash landing puffins,
the pair took a tumble off the cliff moments later but circled back round and up
Possibly my new favourite photo
WHEN YOUR AGGRESSIVE PATIENT SUDDENLY WAKES UP FROM SEDATION
As a human anesthesiologist, I'm once again finding vetblr way too relatable...
Pros of job with lots of driving: cool wildlife stop overs
Cons of job with lots of driving: back pain
But recent highlights:
Sketching a heron from the local river
Best boxing day gift was this beautiful kingfisher
She is a lovely female which you can tell from her orange bottom beak. She sat just in front of me for a couple minutes before flitting off down the river
Sparrowhawk in the garden!
Poor pigeon but so cool to watch the sparrowhawk pluck it. We watched each other for a while then it got right back at it
Best photographs I've ever taken 👌
One of the hardest things about working in a veterinary ER is delivering bad news. I feel like at least once a shift someone is blindsided by their pet being diagnosed with a condition they’ve never heard of before. In many cases this is unavoidable but I really feel that some of the most common critical emergencies I see would be easier for owners to process if they had prior knowledge about the illness.
The following infographic is far from a comprehensive list and truthfully I have a LOT more to say about diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of each of these conditions. However, this image shows just a few of the major points that I wish owners had been able to prepare for prior to hearing about them in the ER. Some of these conditions are preventable and some are not but they all require an owner to make difficult decisions in a crisis situation. If your pet fits into one of these categories, please just do a quick google about the condition, and maybe discuss with your vet signs that you can watch for at home.
Just wanted to add that, though it's less common, unspayed female cats can also get pyometra, and male dogs can also get urethral obstructions!
Finally got around to updating this infographic! Definitely should have included female cats in the Pyometra section as well, so here is an edited version for anyone who needs it
Bird flu survivor
Really interested to see black eye gannets in Orkney. Researchers at the Bass Rock think it's linked to bird flu survival post HPAIV infection. Black iris gannets had antibodies for HPAIV showing they had previously been infected and survived! Nothing out yet about how and why their eyes change like that, but very intersting
Blue eyed gannet for comparison
Link to rspb article on it
Black eyes in seabirds indicates bird flu survival
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.01.538918v1.full
I first heard about if from a talk with someone at the Scottish sea bird centre who was involved, and I think this is the paper they talked about
It's interesting to read the methodology and results. They took 19 chick rearing adult birds - saying "Where possible, birds with chicks were caught preferentially to guarantee that they had been present throughout the HPAIV outbreak." gannets only start breeding when 3-4 years old and these black eyes have only appeared this year. Bird flu has only really been see in gannets since 2022, I don't think there is a report of a H5N infected gannet before last year. This would suggest that the eye colour change is a result of infection and not a selection pressure genetic change - bizarre! Currently the two just seem to be linked but nothing further so far in how and why.
Bird flu survivor
Really interested to see black eye gannets in Orkney. Researchers at the Bass Rock think it's linked to bird flu survival post HPAIV infection. Black iris gannets had antibodies for HPAIV showing they had previously been infected and survived! Nothing out yet about how and why their eyes change like that, but very intersting
Blue eyed gannet for comparison
Link to rspb article on it
Black eyes in seabirds indicates bird flu survival
Bird flu survivor
Really interested to see black eye gannets in Orkney. Researchers at the Bass Rock think it's linked to bird flu survival post HPAIV infection. Black iris gannets had antibodies for HPAIV showing they had previously been infected and survived! Nothing out yet about how and why their eyes change like that, but very intersting
Blue eyed gannet for comparison
Link to rspb article on it
Black eyes in seabirds indicates bird flu survival
Bird flu survivor
Really interested to see black eye gannets in Orkney. Researchers at the Bass Rock think it's linked to bird flu survival post HPAIV infection. Black iris gannets had antibodies for HPAIV showing they had previously been infected and survived! Nothing out yet about how and why their eyes change like that, but very intersting
Blue eyed gannet for comparison
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Visited the third largest uk puffin colony today for a birthday treat, and it was sand eel season!
Good birbs working hard
One of the best times to see puffins
They currently have pufflings hidden away in their burrows, and we watched the puffins race down their burrows with sand eels before black back gulls could steal them. The chicks need a lot of feeding before they'll fledge early-mid July
