The Alderney Wildlife Trust says the weather has played a part in keeping fledgling seabird numbers high.
The Alderney Wildlife Trust has published an initial estimate of seabird numbers for 2025 and they look healthy.
The number of puffins is up slightly at 190 breeding pairs, while more than half of the large gannet population have had babies and the cliff top fulmars have had a great year.
Ramsar ecologist Niamh McDevitt puts this down to the dry and settled spring and summer:
"Everything seemed to be a bit earlier this year, the puffins were laying earlier and the fulmars and guillemots were a bit earlier too.
"I think it's to do with having a dry, nice spring."
Niamh says puffins raft, or rest, in large numbers at sea and this is how they over winter in the east Atlantic.
To gauge their numbers off Alderney, Niamh says the number rafting was doubled:
"We do early season raft counts south of Burhou and we count how many are in the bay.
"Usually, one of the pairs will be in the burrow and one in the bay and this is how we work out the breeding population size of 190 breeding pairs."
To get a more accurate number the footage from the puffin cam on Burhou is being analysed.
"Gannets are having a good year and over 55% of the pairs on Les Etacs have currently got a chick or have had one that has fledged."
Niamh says the puffins have already left Alderney, but the gannets stay longer:
"The gannets will hang around with chicks fledging till mid October and they'll be back in mid February."
Gannets off Alderney by Josh Copping.
"Fulmars are essentially mini albatrosses and they nest on the west cliffs and we had 17 chicks compared to 10 last year. It's the best figure in nearly a decade."
A more detailed review of the 2025 seabird season will be published later in the autumn.
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