09.02.2025 Another fine image from Romano - a Grey Plover at La Rocque RDC
A mainly dry day, with showers passing to the North of the Island, but cold (1c to 5c) in light Easterly winds.
A busier morning at Corbiere saw 5 Pintails, 2 Shovelers, 4 Red-throated Divers, 2 Black-throated Divers, 461 Razorbills, 11 Guillemots, 7 Fulmars, 112 Gannets, a Brent Goose, 5 Cormorants, 10 Purple Sandpipers, 19 Kittiwakes, 11 Mediterranean Gulls, 2 Common Gulls, 52 Great Black-backed Gulls and a Grey Heron passing, also 2 Peregrines which took a Turnstone and offshore, 2 Porpoises, 6 Common Dolphins and a Grey Seal. At Petit Port were 22 Ringed Plovers, 8 Dunlin, 45 Curlews, 18 Turnstones, a Purple Sandpiper and a Mediterranean Gull. Another 5 Purple Sandpipers were at La Moye Point. In Portelet Bay were 9 pale-bellied Brent Geese and a Chiffchaff.
Off of Grosnez were 40 Gannets feeding over 6 Porpoises and a Raven and at Crabbe were an adult male and a ring-tailed Hen Harrier, 2 Peregrines, a Merlin, a Marsh Harrier, a Raven, 24 Choughs, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, 30 Chaffinches and 20 Linnets.
At Grouville Marsh were 2 Mistle Thrushes again, 40 Redwings, 2 Snipe, a Reed Bunting and a Common Gull and a Pintail was at a flooded Rue du Parcq.On Rue du Rat was a Cattle Egret and at Rue Ponterrin near Victoria Village were 7 Cattle Egrets and 9 Teal.
Outside St Aubin's Harbour were 5 pale-bellied Brent Geese, 32 Redshanks, 57 Black-headed Gulls and a Grey Wagtail.
Another Grey Wagtail was on Mont Matthieu and at Rozel Harbour were 16 dark-bellied Brent Geese.
