It's quite interesting within the Channel Islands the recolonisation of Grey Seals.
Anecdotally, the last Grey Seal was shot by a fisherman in 1910, on the East coast of Guernsey. I don't remember seeing any growing up as a child in Guernsey, then about 20 years ago, they started to appear.
We now have numerous colonies, and I see them locally in Alderney probably 2 or 3 times a week. The first pups have already been born this season and two have already been rescued by our local animal sanctuaries. Research shows that the local populations travel quite large distances, and individuals photographed here have turned up in Cornwall and Devon and also all the way up the French Channel coast.
On another note, I don't think I've seen so many migrant thrushes and blackbirds this Autumn, earlier this morning I counted nearly two dozen thrushes on the back lawn, outnumbering blackbirds. I'm wondering if this benign weather has had an influence?
Originally Posted by: StoneCroze