Cornwall Birding

St Ives Island 0500hrs - STORM PETREL (10+, close inshore) (P.Freestone)
Falmouth - STORM PETREL (15)
Penzance, Tolcarne Beach - STORM PETREL (1)
Rumps point - Pentire Farm - QUAIL
Walmsley Santuary - GARGANEY
Porthgwarra 0830hrs-1030hrs - POMARINE SKUA, BALEARIC SH’WATER (2), STORM PETREL (38), PUFFIN
Scillonian  - STORM PETREL (45) seen on crossing to St Marys.
Pendeen 1030hrs-midday - STORM PETREL [...]

A seawatch from Penlee Point from 0930hrs - 1215hrs today produced STORM PETREL(25) and MANX SH’WATER (31).
Between 1015hrs - 1130hrs at Gyllyngvase Beach, Falmouth, STORM PETREL (171)
STORM PETRELS this afternoon in Cornwall, Porthmellon (5+), Porthpean (1), Chapel Point (4+), Tolcarne Beach (31, two taken by a Peregrine)
Eagles Nest 2230hrs-2300hrs - NIGHTJAR (2) churring males, GRASSHOPPER [...]

Woodchat Shrike (ssp. badius) (Photos:Phill Locker) 

The RSPB and partnerships are celebrating after breeding by the re-introduced Cirl Buntings in South Cornwall was proven. A nest containing chicks was found by an RSPB worker, BBC Radio Cornwall reported today. Click HERE for more information.

STORM PETREL - 4 past Tolcarne beach, 3 past Penlee Point this morning.
ARCTIC SKUA - Single past Penlee Point.
Seawatching at Portmellon bay produced STORM PETREL (2), MANX SH’WATER (150+) and BLACK THROATED DIVER. (Courtsey RBA)
Seawatching from Chapel Point this afternoon produced POMARINE SKUA (3, all Imm.) BALEARIC SH’WATER (2)
GARGANEY (drk) still at Walmsley Sanctuary.
All info. [...]

GARGANEY - Drk at Walmsley Sanctuary this evening.
QUAIL - 1+ birds singing between Rumps point and Pentire point.

This bird was occasionally obliging but the bay was covered fog when this photo was taken. Well known Scilly birders Bryan Thomas and Bob Flood both waded out chest deep in water in the bay to get better photos! This individual was ringed but another unringed bird was seen off Samson the same day. Birders [...]

Iceland Gull seen again this afternoon on Samson.
For more info. visit the Isles of Scilly Bird Group webite HERE.

Eider reported this evening at Porthpean. Nothing else of note.

Another overnight ringing session at Porthgwarra produced 98 European Storm Petrels, tape lured, ringed and released by members of the Lands End Ringing Group. 17/06/07

Hayle Estuary
Whimbrel (2) one with badly broken leg, Little Egret (6), Curlew (37). Little else of note.

Occasionally, i buy a book about birds without thinking much about it. This one was a fathers Day present. At first and having not read the introduction, i went straight to the first page of Plates. These were extemely well done but of brightly coloured Pittas, flycatchers and minivets. My initial thoughts were, “I’m never [...]

Lesvos – 10th May – 24th May 2007 by Mark Halliday
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My family and I stayed at the quiet holiday resort of Scala Kalloni, which is a great central location and probably has the greatest concentration of birds on the island around that area. Although mid April to early May is the [...]

Spotted Sandpiper - Hayle Estuary. Last seen on 1st May. (Photo: P.Freestone)

White -billed Diver - Copperhouse Creek. Very obliging! (Photo: P.Freestone)

Long known as one of the premier sea bird watching sites in England. 49 Storm-petrels were caught and released at the site last night by members of the Lands End Ringing Group.

June tends to be a quiet time for birding in Cornwall. The early part of the month can sometimes pull in a late spring migrant with Bee-eater and Red-backed Shrike on 5th June this year. Birders in Cornwall generally turn their attentions to breeding species at this time of year before the rush of sea-watching [...]

The weather in Cornwall today finally prompted me to do this trip report, wishing i was still there in the sunshine! First and foremost this was not a birding holiday. It was a family holiday with the opportunity to do a bit of birding. The fact that i managed to get out nearly everyday almost [...]

NOTHING TO REPORT AGAIN!

Very little to report other than breeding species.