Tuesday 12th June

Over the last few weeks the Shelducks on the island have been bringing their ducklings to the island beaches. Numbers in each brood would typically start at 8 - 10, but were decreasing slowly as they fell victim to the predatory gulls or crows. Each day myself or the visitors would go down and count them with baited breath. After a few precarious days the numbers begun to stabilise, and as we often see, the fit and strong survive. The chick count now stands at 12 and has been for a week, so we are hoping that they will survive and fly off.