Wayne Turner

Brightonian living in Guernsey. Freelance bird logger. Gull colour-ring hunter. Seawatcher. Moth-er. "If you love nature you will find wonder everywhere."

[Baldbirder @Baldbirder1]

Couple of BOC images from the Western Reef Heron twitch at Foryd Bay, Caernarfon. 58 mins away enjoying a full Welsh (late) breakfast when news broke. Phew! @RareBirdAlertUK @LeeEvansBirding @birdsinwales #birding

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

@RichardLafette @GuernseyBirds If it has large mature trees it is definitely possible at this time of year, Richard. Shy birds that are darn hard to see in the canopy though despite being brightly coloured.

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

Successfully twitched 5 Bee-eaters that were at Pleinmont all afternoon. Presumably the same 5 from Portland Bill earlier in the week heading back south into the Continent.

Biggest flock here since 10 in 2015 (only single birds and a pair recorded since).

@GuernseyBirds

[Lee Evans (LGRE) - the official account @LeeEvansBirding]

A blue morph WESTERN REEF HERON currently in North Wales at Foryd Bay - the first record for Britain and Ireland

[Gyr Crakes @GyrCrakes]

New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - March 2026: killer hornet on the loose!
https://t.co/5Anr6kfFgp

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

Dark phase Honey Buzzard over the garden for 5 minutes this afternoon before flying off east.

Then later an immature Yellow-legged Gull and a Suffolk colour-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull were roosting at the reservoir.

@GuernseyBirds

[Tom Brereton @tom_m_brereton]

Exciting MARINElife survey ahead covering Biscay and the shelf-edge of south west Ireland. Survey dates 25 May - 2 June. Surveyors Robin and Pete @cardiffbirder.bsky.social Follow the action on the blog that will be here, once the survey is live https://t.co/qbB9Uh2pX0

[Manchester United Women @ManUtdWomen]

Every minute of every game. For the third season in a row.

@MayaLeTissier is built different 🔋🦾

[Gyr Crakes @GyrCrakes]

New 'Just a Bird' diary/blog post - February 2026: The disgruntled Laughing Gull.
https://t.co/yursdEtuJQ

[Manchester United Women @ManUtdWomen]

Congrats to Maya who won Young Player of the Year during Thursday’s Women's Football Awards 👏🏅

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

It might have only been Guernsey's 60th-ever Caspian Gull at St. Saviour's Reservoir this afternoon, but it was the first for the month of May. A 2nd-calendar year bird.

Always a smooth-looking gull.

@GuernseyBirds

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

Thanks to finder Mark Guppy @guernseyguppy I managed to add Black Kite to my Rocquaine Bay garden list this morning. An increasing annual spring overshoot.

Photographed with a Marsh Harrier for comparison.

@GuernseyBirds

[Mark Guppy @guernseyguppy]

Black Kite over Portelet bay at 9.33 am
Still present 11.25am. @GuernseyBirds @BirdGuides

[Adobe Women's FA Cup @AdobeWFACup]

We will never be over this Maya Le Tissier moment 💫

From presenting the trophy in 2016 to lifting it herself with Manchester United eight years later 🏆

[UEFA Women’s Champions League @UWCL]

Maya Le Tissier’s debut #UWCL campaign 💪

#HBD || @ManUtdWomen

[Graham Appleton @GrahamFAppleton]

More Snipe news!
Very few Icelandic Snipe winter in England (https://t.co/9NyliKWojy)
This tagged bird left Cornwall at 7pm on 13th April and arrived in Iceland 16 hours later.
Info from Tómas Gunnarsson & @_JoseAAlves_
#ornithology

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

The south-easterly wind coming off of the continent produced again this afternoon when I found Guernsey's fifth-ever Black Stork as it cruised east along the cliffs at Pleinmont.

@GuernseyBirds

[Graham Appleton @GrahamFAppleton]

Snipe news!
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Two Snipe tagged in Iceland by José Alves left Ireland at dusk on 5 April and reached Iceland 17 hours later. See map.
Averaging 80 and 87 km/h
#ornithology

[Wayne Turner @WayneTurner4]

Cirl Buntings have become virtually annual in Guernsey since 2018 (after a decade without any sightings) but the one I found today at Pleinmont was the first singing male here since the one-off breeding record in 2019.

The videos are of it singing and calling.

@GuernseyBirds

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

At 08:50hrs on 17th March, after a heads up from Beachy Head, we noted a Brent Goose with a back mounted tag. The bird had been tagged on 4th Feb at Saint-Armel in France, leaving that area on the evening of the 16th. It finished its flight at West-Terschelling at 3pm on the 17th