Thought we’d share this superb photo of a female Eider and ‘flying’ Crab taken by Sam Williams at Penzance. Amazing photo! Feel free to leave a comment!
Eider, Penzance (S.Williams)
As you can see from our Daily Bird Reports below, two SAND MARTINS were seen at Clapper Marshes, Wadebridge this afternoon, hopefully a sign of things to come. Keep your eyes peeled at places like St Gothian Sands and Marazion Marsh for further arrivals of Sand Martins and other early migrants like Wheatears.
We have had varying comments regarding the new look website, mostly positive but also plenty of constructive critisism! Unfortunately, the one previous to the one you see now was extremely high maintainance and took a lot of looking after so we have decided to revert back to a newer version of our original Cornwall Birding theme. We hope the changes have not inconvenienced any of you too much and also hope you like this version. We still have plenty of work to do to get it up to the standards that you have come to expect of Cornwall Birding so please bare with us as we go through this period of updating. The changes as expected came at a cost and we funded them through sales of our superb 2010 Rare and Scarce Bird Report. So thankyou to those who have purchased one and if you haven’t, but use this website regularly, then please think about buying one as you will be helping greatly towards the cost of keeping this website free, keeping the CBA membership free and contributing towards the printing costs of the 2011 Report which is currently being written ready for the end of september. See the Annual Report tab above for further details.
Thanks, Paul and Ash
St Ives fishermen may be making the papers again once photographs of todays incidents make the news! A witness took photographs of a fisherman removing hundreds of dead Auks, Shags and other seabirds from a net of the coast between Manns Head and Clodgy Point today. Other birds were just left to die in another nearby net. The RSPB and Police have been notified.
St Ives Fishing Boat hauls in the illegal catch! (number of boat removed)
