03.08.2024 Juvenile Caspian Gull at Petit Port yesterday, image courtesy of Romano da Costa RdC
An overcast start to the day with rain through the middle past in a fresh southwest wind
It was a busy morning for seabirds off of the East coast and over the early morning high tide, counts from La Rocque and Seymour included 4 Manx Shearwaters, 20 Balearic Shearwaters, a Common Scoter, a Great Crested Grebe, 14 Gannets, 28 Cormorants, 1,053 Sandwich Terns, a single Common Tern, 420 Black-headed Gulls, 138 Mediterranean Gulls, 17 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 13 Great Black-backed Gulls. Waders moving up on the falling tide included 22 Ringed Plovers, 7 Turnstones, 2 Grey Plovers, a Whimbrel and 28 Curlews. 4 Swallows headed off and a Peregrine was chasing the smaller gulls offshore. 5 Bottle-nosed Dolphins moved North.
At St Ouen's Pond Scrape were 6
Teal and a
White Wagtail and a Willow Warbler was in a garden in Vallee des Vaux
Mick Dryden
Romano da Costa
Tony Paintin