Wayne Turner

It might have only been Guernsey's 60th-ever Caspian Gull at St. Saviour's Reservoir this afternoon, but it was the first for the month of May. A 2nd-calendar year bird. Always a smooth-looking gull. @GuernseyBirds

Thanks to finder Mark Guppy @guernseyguppy I managed to add Black Kite to my Rocquaine Bay garden list this morning. An increasing annual spring overshoot. Photographed with a Marsh Harrier for comparison. @GuernseyBirds

Black Kite over Portelet bay at 9.33 am Still present 11.25am. @GuernseyBirds @BirdGuides

We will never be over this Maya Le Tissier moment 💫 From presenting the trophy in 2016 to lifting it herself with Manchester United eight years later 🏆

Maya Le Tissier’s debut #UWCL campaign 💪 #HBD || @ManUtdWomen

More Snipe news! Very few Icelandic Snipe winter in England (wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/sni…) This tagged bird left Cornwall at 7pm on 13th April and arrived in Iceland 16 hours later. Info from Tómas Gunnarsson & @_JoseAAlves_ #ornithology

The south-easterly wind coming off of the continent produced again this afternoon when I found Guernsey's fifth-ever Black Stork as it cruised east along the cliffs at Pleinmont. @GuernseyBirds

Snipe news! 1/4 Two Snipe tagged in Iceland by José Alves left Ireland at dusk on 5 April and reached Iceland 17 hours later. See map. Averaging 80 and 87 km/h #ornithology

Cirl Buntings have become virtually annual in Guernsey since 2018 (after a decade without any sightings) but the one I found today at Pleinmont was the first singing male here since the one-off breeding record in 2019. The videos are of it singing and calling. @GuernseyBirds

At 08:50hrs on 17th March, after a heads up from Beachy Head, we noted a Brent Goose with a back mounted tag. The bird had been tagged on 4th Feb at Saint-Armel in France, leaving that area on the evening of the 16th. It finished its flight at West-Terschelling at 3pm on the 17th

Delighted to learn that Norwegian LBBG (black)J898H that I saw staging at L'Eree one morning last September (photo below) was photographed back on its wintering grounds in The Gambia on 22nd February. @GuernseyBirds

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New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - January 2026: Least Adder's-tongue and wild geese. gyrcrakes.com/blog/2026/2/22…

Grey Phalarope present for its 3rd day in the island spinning on the Colin Best Nature Reserve at lunchtime today. @GuernseyBirds

Found a solitary Pale-bellied Brent Goose on the Colin Best Nature Reserve this morning. Scarce but just about annual visitor to the island (e.g. last year's only sighting was of 6 at Perelle on 17th Nov.) @GuernseyBirds

Nice surprise self-find this afternoon of a Grey Phalarope at L'Eree Shingle Bank. @GuernseyBirds

Captain Le Tissier🫡 Only 23 and captaining her side. Maya Le Tissier is just getting started.

A handsome 1st winter Caspian Gull at st Margaret's bay this morning, and a similarly nice Yellow-legged gull of the same age y'day.

Fantastic find by Mark Guppy @guernseyguppy at Perelle Bay this afternoon of the Channel Islands' first North American Laughing Gull. A 1st-winter bird. @GuernseyBirds

I found Guernsey’s 1st Laughing Gull at Perelle bay at 13.24 today @GuernseyBirds @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK