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Friday 8 June 2018

7th June – Little Egret

During the late morning of 7th June, island engineer Mark Kelly found a Little Egret – still a scarce species on Lundy – in the pond outside Barton Cottages. It took a short flight over the Village, including the Tavern garden, before returning to the same pond, though it was later seen from the Jetty, flying up the East Side. Hopefully, if it sticks around, it will quickly figure out that Lundy's numerous low-tide rock pools offer much better feeding than the freshwater ponds on the island itself. Lundy's ornithological history is punctuated with the corpses of herons and egrets that did not discover this fact...

Mark also saw what sounded very much like an adult Roseate Tern about halfway across to the island during the morning crossing of MS Oldenburg from Ilfracombe.

Other sightings during the day included 89 Puffins in Jenny's Cove, a feeding flock of 100 adult Kittiwakes off the West Side (though it seems Kittiwakes are having a very poor year breeding-wise), five Collared Doves, two Swifts heading north-east over the Tent Field, and a Whitethroat in Millcombe.

Little Egret, Barton Pond, 7 Jun 2018 © Tim Davis

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