Cornwall Birding

Porthpean - Red-throated Diver (imm)
Marazion - Great Northern Diver
Hayle Estuary - Med Gull (2nd sum), Whimbrel (2), Little Egret (7), COMMON TERN (7 ad, 1 juv)
Penzance, Tolcarne Beach - Arctic Skua (pale morph) at 20.20hrs

Apologies for the following dated photos. They are being added so that the 2007 Gallery can be archived properly at the end of the year and links can be built to the Cornwall Species List page.

‘Scandinavian’ Rock Pipit - Marazion Beach 2007 (photo:P.Freestone)

‘Asian’ Lesser Whitethroat - Lelant, 17th January 2007 (Photo:P.Freestone)

Apologies for the following dated photos. They are being added so that the 2007 Gallery can be archived properly at the end of the year and links can be built to the Cornwall Species List page.
 
‘Tundra’ Bean Goose (above) and same bird with Pink-footed Goose (below)

Taken earlier this year at Drift Reservoir, neither of these […]

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Falmouth - Med. Gull again near Yacht Marina
Walmsley Sanctuary - GARGANEY drk again
Hayle Est - Little egret (3) Ryan’s Field, (6 on estuary at 2100hrs)
Camel Est - Little Egret (28) this afternoon

Another new gallery added to Cornwall Birding showing a few of the more common bird species found in the county. Feel free to browse and send your photos for addition.

Feel free to browse the newest addition to the Cornwall Birding website showing highlights of the last few years (October) highlights. If you have any photos from the Scillies you would like to submit for the Scillies Gallery send them to us at Cornwall Birding.

Pentire Point - QUAIL (1) singing by Lead mine car park this morning.
Hayle Estuary - MED. GULL (2nd sum), WHIMBREL (2), LITTLE EGRET (7)
Walmsley Sanctuary - GARGANEY (eclipse drk), GREEN SANDPIPER (1)
Marazion - GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (1) Longrock pool.

Porthcurno - STORM PETREL (2 tho distant) at 09.30am
Falmouth - MEDITERANEAN GULL (ad) still at Falmouth Yacht Marina
Mousehole - BALEARIC SH’WATER (1)

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Feel free to browse our Archive bird galleries that have now been updated with some of the highlights of the birdwatching year in Cornwall in 2004, 2005 and 2006. All to be updated with more bird photos soon. If you have any decent shots of birds in Cornwall from previous years and would like to […]

Tressillian - CURLEW (74), SHELDUCK (32 +6juvs), REDSHANK (38), LITTLE EGRET (9) (Thanks Simon Wilcock)
Pendeen - BALEARIC SH’WATER (1), STORM PETREL (2), MANX SH’WATER (500+)
Porthgwarra - STORM PETREL (1), MANX SH’WATER (200+) (thanks H.Cook)
Botallack - CHOUGH(6) (thanks H.Cook)

Couldn’t resist sharing another great shot of the White-billed Diver that graced Copperhouse creek earlier this year. (Photo: Mark Halliday)

Are you keeping a county year list. Let us know here at Cornwall Birding. We would be happy to recieve your birding diary updates.
Okay i will start this one off too although i’m not actually doing a County Year List as such.
Paul Freestone - 156 sp. up to 22nd June (Highlights include: White-billed Diver, Franklin’s […]

Hayle Estuary - MED. GULL (1st Sum), SANDWICH TERN (6), WHIMBREL (2), YELLOW-LEGGED GULL (adult) (Thanks M.Halliday)
Cape Cornwall - BALEARIC SH’WATER (1), STORM PETREL (1)

Spotted Sandpiper - Hayle Est, April 2007.
Another shot of this long staying american wader on the Hayle Estuary. This was the last photo taken of it before its departure at the beginning of May 2007. Shame it left as it was moulting into some fantastic summer plumage. It was probably this bird that was subsequently seen […]

Sunday 24th June’s pelagic produced only 20 STORM PETRELS and 10 MANX SH’WATER, though a BALEARIC SH’WATER was seen in the afternoon, north of Tresco, on Will Wagstaff’s seabird trip. The ICELAND GULL is still knocking about Samson and there is still a HOBBY on Bryher. (Thanks to Alan Hannington)
 

 The weather here in West Cornwall at 10.27hrs is extremely WET and WINDY with fairly poor visibility. Not good weather for birding.

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Porthgwarra - STORM PETREL (10), MANX SH’WATER (250) 0830hrs-1030hr.
Lands End - RED-BACKED SHRIKE (female) 200yds from derelict house along Trinity loop. Still there p.m.
Sennen Cove - PUFFIN offshore.
Hayle Estuary - LITTLE EGRET (8) on Ryans Field