A simple structure like this can support dozens of native bee species. Build one. Hang it up. Let nature do the rest.

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Great post! Here in Guernsey we've had a bat survey running each year to discover more about local bats and educate people.

what a beauty!

From a reluctant diver to a storyteller of the sea, Sue’s work captures the wild beauty of island life like no one else.

Sue’s underwater photos have been featured in natural history guides, diving magazines — and even on stamps in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and the UK.

She also produced, filmed and presented two series of Wild Islands, a natural history series for ITV Channel Islands.
The series brought the unique wildlife of the Channel Islands to a wide audience.

That passion became a career.
Sue has worked with major production companies, including the BBC Natural History Unit.

She became a diving instructor at Bouley Bay on Jersey’s north coast.
But it wasn’t long before she realised what she loved most: taking a camera underwater.

As an art student, Sue reluctantly tried scuba diving (she could barely swim!).
To her surprise, she fell in love with the underwater world — and everything changed.

Meet Sue Daly – award-winning wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
Born in Shropshire, her journey into the wild started with a summer job in Jersey in 1988…

With over 5,000 breeding pairs, this is one of the most significant gannet colonies in the world. The gannets of Alderney are part-time residents. For a brief season, they transform the island’s coastline. And then, just like that, they’re gone again — vanishing into the open sea until next year.

And yet, each year, they come back — drawn to the same craggy outcrops to reunite, nest, raise their young, and fill the air with their calls and the sea with their dives.

They’re ocean wanderers. For most of the year, these birds live entirely at sea, rarely touching land. After the breeding season, they scatter — some travelling along the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, others migrating as far as the waters off West Africa.