Jersey Birds
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28.03.2024 Watch out, there's a Shelduck about! Thanks to Romano for this image taken at La Sente RDC
A stormy day with heavy showers and a blasting south-southwest wind, reaching F8 early this afternoon
A brief window at sunrise , before rain set in, saw 70 Manx Shearwaters, 6 Common Scoters, 11 Guillemots, 12 Razorbills, 2 Fulmars, 79 Gannets, 13 Kittiwakes, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 9 Curlews and 7 Shags pass Corbiere, with 2 Purple Sandpipers attempting to roost there and an immature Peregrine hunting offshore. 4 Brent Geese were in Petit Port Bay.
The first Common Tern of the year was sheltering in St Ouen's Bay Sandpits, with 10 Sand Martins, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 5 Oystercatchers also there. At the Scrape were a pair of Shelduck, 2 Snipe and 6 Lapwings and on St Ouen's Pond were 20 Shovelers and 2 Oystercatchers. Marsh Harriers were about their business as usual.
At La Sente were 135 Brent Geese including one pale-bellied Brent, the pair of Shelduck, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4 Cattle Egrets, 13 Little Egrets, 14 Curlews and 2 Swallows, while at Gorey were 8 Common Gulls, 7 Mediterranean Gulls, 4 Black-headed Gulls, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 150 Herring Gulls and a Great Crested Grebe.
It is supposed to be Spring! The Manx Shearwaters and Kittiwakes were feeding just beyond the rocks, on the North side of the Lighthouse MD
Mick Dryden
Romano da Costa
Tony Paintin
