Common Darter
Very nice session at the ABO’s wildlife garden this morning with Naturetrek.
Photos (JH) Common Darter, Lemon Marsh Fly and Poecilobothrus nobilitatus
Balearic Shearwater
Cracking boat trip with local leading operator “Avanti Boat Trips” for the visiting Naturetrek group this afternoon.
Excellent views of several Balearic Shearwaters.
Photo by Keith Monk
European Bee-eater
A European Bee-eater today, to the delight of the visiting Naturetrek group.
We first saw it along the track towards Fort Clonque late morning then watched it at length this afternoon at Longis Nature reserve.
Photo Keith Monk.
Stonechat
Some of Alderneys newest residents were recorded earlier this week during The Constant Effort Site (CES) visit, situated at the observatory site which produced a variety of very recently fledged young birds.
The CES program involves thousands of bird ringers across Europe all following the same standardised guidelines monitoring Europe’s breeding songbirds between April and August. The Channel Islands now contributes to this research through the ABO and this week’s new arrivals not previously recorded in our CES included Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Great Tit and Stonechat.
Photo (JH) one of the island’s latest residents – a young Stonechat.
An exciting day with Naturetrek in Alderney as we came across a cracking male Red-backed Shrike ( photo Will Crombie) Cuckoo and Greenshank were also spotted today.