A trip to Lihou today as part of a working party to rope off seabird breeding areas. Lihou, off the west coast of Guernsey is only accessible at low tide and is linked by a causeway. The house in the photo is a retreat which is run by the Lihou Charitable Trust. https://www.lihouisland.com
Typically, I started to use my point and shoot camera once we had crossed over – complete with wheelbarrow – but it had no memory card so the only photos are from the starting point.
Vic Froome, a long-standing and hands-on enthusiast, has been making model Common Tern, Sterna Hirundo, to put at the top of the shingle on Lihou in the hope that it will encourage these birds to return to a former breeding ground. Last year, about fifteen pairs bred on an islet off the east coast. The boxes in the wheelbarrow will be placed on the shingle and weighted down with pebbles to give chicks cover from predatory gulls.
Natural history of the Bailiwick of Guernsey 