Wayne Turner
@WayneTurner4
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Brightonian living in Guernsey. Freelance bird logger. Gull colour-ring hunter. Seawatcher. Moth-er. "If you love nature you will find wonder everywhere."
Joined August 2011
This afternoon I managed to relocate a Pallas''s Warbler found this morning by Mark Lawlor @GyrCrakes in the Vaux du Monel. The first Guernsey record for 17 years. @GuernseyBirds
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Why track #waders? This blog has two aims – to share important scientific and conservation stories revealed through #shorebird tracking work and to encourage scientists to make their data available via the Global Wader platform. https://t.co/CQ2kENGuQI
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Belgian Med Gull 30EV arrived back at Perelle today for its 4th consecutive winter. It usually visits Jersey first on its way here and was seen there 5 days ago. @GuernseyBirds
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New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - July 2025: Trip to UK, day 7 - The New Forest https://t.co/5jgVfzHMaq
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The trip finished with a full day in the New Forest , to search for rare species. I had been looking forward to this for a while and intended to give it some real effort today. I didn’t get off too...
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New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - July 2025: Trip to UK, day 5 - The Brecks https://t.co/Ir1CSjcoMy
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On 28th July, breakfast was accompanied with a selection of moths from the trap. New species that we hadn’t had the previous few nights were Ear Moth , Nut-tree Tussock , Catoptria pinella and, a new...
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"I feel like I'm doing work experience with Bronzey all the time" 🤣 Maya Le Tissier reacts to being Lucy Bronze's 'next protégée' at right-back... 🎙️ @KatieShanahan3
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New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - July 2025: Trip to UK, day 4 - Strumpshaw & Great Yarmouth. https://t.co/zkc1hle2Rm
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The next day the weather seemed much brighter, albeit on and off, but the moth trap in the garden was quiet, not having any additional species from the day before. We decided to head back to Strump...
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Crimson Speckled moth rescued from the garden pool today. A lifer with only six previous Guernsey records up until this year - 1895 (2), 1990, 1995, 2004 + 2013.
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Four different Caspian Gulls at Petit Port on Saturday evening! All first winters, it’s a new record count for the island!!! @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @JerseyBioCentre @jsynationalpark
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Jersey’s First ever Bay-breasted Warbler trapped at Ouaisne this morning!!! Initially thought to be Blackpoll but re identified from photos @BirdGuides
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1st-winter Caspian Gull typically bossing the roost at Perelle today by adopting the highest point. (Tail pattern confirms it as the same bird first seen on 28th Sep.) @GuernseyBirds
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I've seen 28 Dutch gull colour-rings in Guernsey in the last 6 years but yesterday's at Perelle was my first Great Black-backed Gull - (Green)NS. Previous:- LBBG (x17), Caspian Gull (x4), Med Gull (x3), Black-headed Gull (x2) + hybrid LBBG/YLG (x1). @GuernseyBirds
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New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - July 2025: Trip to UK, day 3 - Wheatfen, Strumpshaw, and finding a second for Britain! https://t.co/l7TVIspMmj
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The moth trap had been set in the village garden the night before, and in the morning, there was a literal smorgasbord of tasty morsels to pick through, many of which were new for me. It had been...
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Maya Le Tissier is in a league of her own ™️ The @ManUtdWomen captain has officially passed Aileen Whelan's record of the most consecutive #BarclaysWSL starts (70), with Le Tissier's start against Chelsea in Gameweek 5 taking her to 71 consecutive starts🤯
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The Dutch colour-ringed juvenile Sandwich Tern at L'Eree Bay today - (Red)HFH - had flown 400 miles NE to Denmark where it was seen 5 days ago before flying 725 miles SW to Guernsey. @GuernseyBirds
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A flock of 8 Sandwich Terns roosting in L'Eree Bay this morning included a Danish juvenile (Green - L9H) and a Dutch juvenile (Red - HFH). @GuernseyBirds
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Juvenile LBBG colour-ringed in Swansea on Colin Best NR yesterday - (orange) S&A and a Polish colour-flagged juvenile Sandwich Tern at Perelle today - (yellow) J1662. @GuernseyBirds
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New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - July 2025: Trip to UK, days 1&2 - Pottering round Windsor Park & a Norfolk village https://t.co/Aprf4jsa6r
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Late morning on 24th July , I set off on the ferry for a week of wildlife with the BUBO lads in Norfolk. This was the first time that I had been on the new ferry, and I was disappointed to see that...
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Ever-present. Maya becomes the seventh player to join the #MUWomen centurion club today 💪💯
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Juvenile Caspian Gull at St. Saviour's Reservoir today. 5th of the autumn so far following 4 in August. @GuernseyBirds
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