Jersey Birds
29.03.2024 A very smart looking Cormorant passing Corbiere MD
The showers were more isolated today, but still cool with a strong southerly wind.
The weather was more to the liking of seabirds than yesterday and a four hour count there saw 156 Manx Shearwaters, many feeding north of the light, 51 Guillemots, 11 Razorbills, 82 Gannets, 2 Fulmars, a Cormorant, 24 Shags, 3 Common Terns, 45 Kittiwakes, 7 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 5 Mediterranean Gulls, 29 Great Black-backed Gulls, 29 Purple Sandpipers, a Turnstone and 2 Peregrines. 7 Brent Geese were at Petit Port.
In the Sandpits in St Ouen's Bay were 4 Shelduck, 10 Tufted Duck, 3 Oystercatchers, a Marsh Harrier and 8 Sand Martins. 2 Shelduck were at the Scrape, but little else.
Numbers of birds at La Sente are slowly reducing and seen there this morning were 21 Cattle Egrets, 20 Little Egrets, a Greenshank, 2 Redshanks, a Common Gull, 11 White Wagtails and 5 Pied Wagtails. A further 5 Common Gulls and 2 Swallows were at Gorey. Birds on Grouville Common included 2 Cirl Buntings, 6 a Marsh Harrier and a Sparrowhawk.
At Beaumont Marsh were 30 Siskins, 60 dark-bellied Brent Geese and 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and at St Aubin were 37 pale-bellied Brent
A short but sweet video of a Little Grebe, by Jo Bramley, taken at Kempt Tower
Mick Dryden
Romano da Costa
Tony Paintin
