A very blustery day on Alderney. Despite the weather there had been an arrival of birds with 6 Wheatear, 10 Rock Pipît and 12 Pied Wagtail feeding along the high tide strandline of the beaches. I was heading around the coast towards Longis Baye when a message came through from Chris Tardivel, a visiting ringer, he had found a Snow Bunting on the beach! When I arrived at Longis he delivered the news “I’ve not seen it for 10 minutes” just as it reappeared from the large shingle and started to forage amongst the seaweed.
Snow Bunting © Matt Scragg
