The first morning out birding was on 3rd May, when I did a circuit of Pleinmont. It was quiet for numbers of migrants, as May often is, a singing Sedge Warbler was the only record of note. However, th...

The start of April coincided with my Easter holidays and so was looking forward to some good birds turning up, and this started with a grapevine message about two Red Kites along the west coast in the...

February is pretty quiet here in Guernsey, but every now and then, something big unexpectedly hits. Both the Royal Tern and the Bonaparte’s Gull were found in February and 2026 landed with another fir...

I knew that there was a population of the rare and weird fern, the Least Adder’s-tongue , on the patch, but I didn’t know where exactly it was. I even knew the approximate location, within 10 metres ...

2025 was a very quiet year for birding. The couple of really exciting birds that were seen on the island were not seen by me! The avian highlights were finding the Pallas’s and the Dotterel - any bird...

After work on 4th November, I popped in to see a group of 7 Whooper Swans which had been found on the new pond along Rue des Bergers. I had not seen Whooper Swan in Guernsey for a while, and this wa...

The first opportunity for proper birding was on 12th October when I went to look for migrants at Pleinmont. It was nicely busy up there, with my first Redwings of the winter and double-figures of S...

The most notable event of a very quiet month for birding was a big dip on Guernsey’s first-ever Black-winged Kite. As soon as I got the message I jumped in the car, but I was there ten minutes after i...

With a full month at home in August, moth-trapping was the focus of attention, but there was not a great number of weather-suitable nights to get the light out in the garden. However, mid-month, betwe...

The trip finished with a full day in the New Forest , to search for rare species. I had been looking forward to this for a while and intended to give it some real effort today. I didn’t get off too...

On 28th July, breakfast was accompanied with a selection of moths from the trap. New species that we hadn’t had the previous few nights were Ear Moth , Nut-tree Tussock , Catoptria pinella and, ...

The next day the weather seemed much brighter, albeit on and off, but the moth trap in the garden was quiet, not having any additional species from the day before. We decided to head back to Strumps...

The moth trap had been set in the village garden the night before, and in the morning, there was a literal smorgasbord of tasty morsels to pick through, many of which were new for me. It had been good...

Late morning on 24th July , I set off on the ferry for a week of wildlife with the BUBO lads in Norfolk. This was the first time that I had been on the new ferry, and I was disappointed to see that...