An interesting Acrocephalus Warbler frequented the extensive sedge around Big Pool, St Agnes in the last week of October ’09. Thought by some to be Marsh Warbler, others weren’t convinced. The photos below are by far the best we have Read more…
4th November 2009 St. Mary’s – 3 Black Redstarts and a first-winter Mediterranean Gull at Little Porth, single Black Redstarts at Giant’s Castle & Watermill, Merlin over the golf course, Golden Plover on the airfield, 7 Teal at Porth Hellick Read more…
The season is over for another year & we have the usual detritus left after the Log! If you feel any of this is yours then please send us your home address and a cheque/cash for your estimate of the postage & packing and we will send it back to you. (more…)
OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT still in the Marigold field on Sunnyside Farm Trail, BLUETHROAT still in the new extension of Lower Moors at Rosehill, Yellow-browed Warblers on Porth Hellick Loop and near Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors, Siberian Chiffchaff at Higher Moors pumping Read more…
Below is a list of birds of note from the last week in October. Not the greatest week in history but just enough to keep the week ticking over. (more…)
St Mary’s – Richard’s Pipit at Porthloo lane in pig field opposite Bishops View this morning and Ring Ouzel briefly. Yellow-browed Warbler at Porth Hellick at Seaward end in sallows. St Agnes – *OLIVE BACKED PIPIT* on Browarth briefly this Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Pintail & Kingfisher at Newford Duck pond, 2 Jack Snipe on Porth Hellick Pool and Yellow-browed Warblers in Holy Vale & Lower Moors. A Richard’s Pipit on Porthloo Lane, a Snow Bunting on Toll’s Island and Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Pintail at Newford Duck pond, 3 Common Scoter in the roads, 6 Sooty Shearwaters & 2 Great Skuas past Peninnis, 3 Jack Snipe on Porth Hellick Pool and a juvenile Arctic Tern on the Beach. A Read more…
There was an influx of Skylark (150+ on St. Mary’s), Chiffchaffs (100+St. Agnes), and Black Redstarts (27 St. Agnes, 30+ St.Mary’s) St. Mary’s – 1 Whooper Swan early morning on Lower Moors, A Pintail on Newford Duck Pond, a summer Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Whooper Swans, 2 Jack Snipe, a Woodcock, a Little Grebe & a Kingfisher at Porth Hellick, a Woodlark flew over Peninnis and 2 Common Scoter, 10 Sooty Shearwater & 12 Great Skua were seen in a Read more…