30.06.2024 Good news for a change, with Reed Buntings having bred in St Ouen's bay for the first time in nearly thirty years! Young are currently being fed in the nest at an undisclosed site, image courtesy of John Ovenden
A dry day with variable cloud amounts in a northwest wind.
The slow times continue with counts from Corbiere including a single Manx Shearwater, a Balearic Shearwater, 4 Fulmars, 33 Gannets, 4 Cormorants, a Kittiwake, 8 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 4 Swifts, 6 Swallows, a Curlew, 3 Peregrines and 2 Ravens.
On St Ouen's Pond Scrape were the Shelduck family and a Black-tailed Godwit.
At the Albert Pier in St Helier were 20 Swifts and 3 Oystercatchers and at Beaumont Marsh was a Firecrest.
Yesterday 3 fledged Kestrel young were at Plemont.
Mick Dryden
Romano da Costa
Tony Paintin