Eider Ducks in Cornwall
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Five Common Eider Ducks were feeding on crabs in Newlyn Harbour yesterday. It was fascinating watching the ducks surface with extremely lively crabs and to try to eat them before the waiting gulls could snatch them away. All were immature … Read More

First Spring Butterflies
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First butterflies of Spring At last, real signs of Spring! For many of us it’s the first butterflies that mean Spring is really here. At the weekend Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies and Peacock Butterflies were seen both at Porthoustock on the … Read More

Uncommon Cornish winter gulls – Glaucous, Iceland and Kulmien’s
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Several Iceland Gulls and Glaucous Gulls have been recorded around the coast of south west Cornwall this winter. Some of the fishing ports have had long stayers attracted by the unloading fishing boats. One of the best places to see … Read More

Winter butterflies in Cornwall
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A late migrant Painted Lady butterfly was seen nectaring on Red Valerium at Porthallow on the Lizard, Cornwall on the 17th November. Peacock and Red Admiral butterflies were also seen basking in winter sunshine. The nearby sheltered beach of Porthoustock … Read More

Rock Pipit on Pendower Beach
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An eventful 2014 drew to an end with a walk in bright sunshine on Pendower Beach, near Portscatho in Cornwall. Out of the wind it felt more like a summer’s day than the middle of winter. Poking around amongst lines … Read More

Black-throated Divers (Gavia actica)
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Over the New Year the weather here in Cornwall has continued to be a ‘tad’ breezy but it has also been remarkably mild. So mild that a Red Admiral was seen flying in the garden on New Years Eve! – … Read More

Best Christmas bird
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The best bird of Christmas surprisingly wasn’t a turkey but a Grey Phalarope that turned up just around the corner from us on Falmouth’s Castle beach True to form it was very confiding, allowing me to approach over the rocks … Read More

Marazion Diver
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A summer plumaged Great Northern Diver, Gavia immer was seen at the weekend on a pool at Long Rock, Marazion, near Penzance, Cornwall. These really are smart looking birds in comparison to the winter plumaged Great Northern Divers that are … Read More

Osprey, Pandion haliaetus
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The Osprey seen fishing around the Hayle Estuary at the weekend certainly brought back a few memories. I well remember seeming my first British Osprey at Boat of Garten in Scotland’s Cairngorms during a Geography field course – a few … Read More

Macarbre massacre in suburban garden
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Don’t panic – this was not the evil work of a maniac on the loose but a Sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, doing what nature designed it to do. A male Sparrowhawk brought down a Wood Pigeon in the garden last week … Read More

Ravens, the largest all black bird in the British Isles.
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Fortunately for many people it’s not necessary to visit the Tower of London to see a Raven, Corvus corax. Here, all around the rocky coastline of south west Cornwall, Ravens are almost guaranteed to be seen when walking the South … Read More

BBC Springwatch Water Rail and Otters
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Springwatch is back on the BBC and in the first show it had some remarkable footage of the normally very shy and unseen Water Rail nesting. Remarkable in so much as these birds are so rarely observed breeding in the … Read More

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