Proper, right here is going some other lengthy late replace. There may be by no means sufficient hours within the day – in spite of aiming for day-to-day updates initially of my put up, sadly my intentions didn’t final lengthy! After a while taken to concentrate on my well being, extra common updates will now resume.
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| Cuckoo © Alan Revel |
So with out additional a do, listed here are one of the most notable information to grace this magical island during the last few weeks. Cormorant have been glaring with a max depend of four on 27 June. Gray Heron have been logged on 19 June and 6-12 July involving two other juveniles. A highly atypical document of a making a song Tree Pipit in Millcombe on 21 June was once outstanding, with the valley additionally that includes a Cuckoo between 29 June and four July. A unmarried Turtle Dove was once logged on 28 June and 1 July, feeding in village in short and later noticed round Brambles. A Curlew flew south previous North Mild on 22 June and autumn wader passage kicked off with a Commonplace Redshank at Pondsbury on 10 July. The web page since pulled in a Inexperienced Sandpiper on 25 July and Commonplace Snipe on 26 July. Commonplace Sandpiper are grossly beneath recorded however people were noticed at Brazen Ward on 21 July (2), North Mild on 24 July (1) and Battery Level 26 July (1). A Eu Golden Plover occupied the Airfield between 23 and 27 July whilst Aztec Bay featured a Mediterranean Gull on 24 July.
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| Juvenile Peregrine © Alan Revel. |
Seawatching has supplied some pleasure every now and then. There was once a large Manx Shearwater motion alongside the Bristol Channel in early July and a hour’s stint alongside the south east and west of the island concerned 13,360 people on 3 July! The tip of the month loved outrageous numbers of Cory’s Shearwater alongside southern Eire and south-west England. Lundy joined in at the motion on 31 July when best the second one island document powered handed Lifeless Cow Level at 8:34PM. In other places, 2 Commonplace Scoter moved south alongside Jenny’s Cove on eleventh July. Except for our Fulmars and a couple of overdue Kittiwake, our breeding birds have in large part left after a a hit breeding season. A final lingering Puffins may also be noticed offshore hopefully, however those would be the final sightings now till subsequent spring.
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| Hurricane Petrel © Luke Marriner |
Coupled with an all island Hurricane Petrel census to get a maintain at the recently unknown inhabitants dimension, we have now larger our efforts ringing ‘stormies’ at identified websites and are blown away with the luck charge. For context, up till the top of 2022 our 10-year moderate catch charge have been 23 new birds a yr. This season (to this point) our ringing totals take a seat at 400(!) new birds ringed, 36 earlier yr retraps and 32 controls, 4 of which were stuck on Lundy in earlier years. Those staggering numbers are elevating extra questions than solutions these days, however it is without a doubt a really perfect indicator that those secretive seabirds are doing some distance higher first of all idea.
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| Newest Hurricane Petrel controls and recoveries from 2023. Be aware: We are nonetheless ready to listen to again about a person we trapped on 25 July that was once at first ringed on Jersey! Map produced the usage of Stephen Vickers’ very good Controls and Recoveries Plotter. |
Passerine migration is beginning to transfer during the gears with the primary Willow Warbler of the fall arriving on 19 July. Small numbers proceed to push thru and a mini fall on 25 July concerned 43 Willow Warbler and a Noticed Flycatcher. Millcombe has loved a Grasshopper Warbler on 17 July, Lawn Warbler and six Sedge Warbler on 1 August. The Goldcrest pair fledged 3 younger in Millcombe Pines on 14 july and a cell juvenile Nice Noticed Woodpecker flitted alongside the Terraces and Millcombe between 12-16 July. The Millcombe Rosefinch was once final recorded on 18 June.
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| Juvenile Wheatear © Alan Revel |
Water Rail breeding was once showed at Pondsbury with younger heard calling in early hours of nineteen June and once more on 27 July. Max counts of the extra common species come with 41 Swift shifting south on 24 June, 5 Sand Martin on 12 July, 10 Area Martin on 17 July and 36 Swallow on 27 July. Juvenile Starling at the moment are out in drive with a max depend of 174 logged on 24 June and the Lundy Area Sparrow inhabitants has doubled – the brand new recruitment of this years younger has noticed the inhabitants upward thrust to 42 people. Submit-breeding Linnet flocks also are beginning to shape once more with 200 incessantly being recorded round Previous Mild and the Airfield since mid-July.