Quercus
homo sarkensis
It's been a disappointing weekend on the migration front... plenty of wee willow-chaffs in the woods... but little else that I can see.
So I turned my attention to the sea birds. The Guillemot rock is now crowded with birds... making a huge racket... and rafts of the just offshore waiting to come in.. On the other coast rafts of Razorbills are sitting on the water... I didn't get close enough to their breeding stacks.. but I'm sure they'll be on there soon, if not already.
I'm yet to see a puffin... but I will!
The Fulmars have taken up positions on wee ledges on the most precipitous cliffs, the herring gulls and Lessr black-backs are dotted in their hundreds of the steep, but vegetated slopes.
I'm told that Manx shearwaters and Storm Petrels probably breed on Sark, both species have been seen and heard on land here... but breeding has never been proven!
So I turned my attention to the sea birds. The Guillemot rock is now crowded with birds... making a huge racket... and rafts of the just offshore waiting to come in.. On the other coast rafts of Razorbills are sitting on the water... I didn't get close enough to their breeding stacks.. but I'm sure they'll be on there soon, if not already.
I'm yet to see a puffin... but I will!
The Fulmars have taken up positions on wee ledges on the most precipitous cliffs, the herring gulls and Lessr black-backs are dotted in their hundreds of the steep, but vegetated slopes.
I'm told that Manx shearwaters and Storm Petrels probably breed on Sark, both species have been seen and heard on land here... but breeding has never been proven!