BELATED 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'

WE WOULD LIKE TO START BY WISHING 

EVERYONE A BELATED 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'.

NOT A LOT ABOUT AT THE MOMENT AND TO BE 

QUITE HONEST OUR HEART IS NOT REALLY IN IT.

WE ARE OFF TO BRAZIL IN 6 WEEKS TIME AND 

THINK THAT MAY DO US SOME GOOD AND 

HOPEFULLY IGNITE OUR ENTHUSIASM AGAIN.

DIPPER

DIPPER

CATTLE & LITTLE EGRET

GOLDFINCH

GOOSANDER

TURNSTONE

MALPAS and STITHIANS.

NOTHING VERY UNUSUAL ABOUT AT THE MOMENT.

THESE WERE TAKEN AT MALPAS AND STITHIANS RESERVOIR.

BULLFINCH, female.

BULLFINCH, male.

GOLDFINCH

WILLOW WARBLER

WOOD PIGEON

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER

OUT & ABOUT

 THESE ARE JUST SOME SHOTS TAKEN WHILE OUT AND ABOUT.

 NOTHING RARE, BUT STILL NICE TO LOOK AT.

Long-tailed Tit

Goldfinch

Black Redstart

Greenshank

Meadow Pipit

Purple Sandpiper

Spotted Redshank

Snow Bunting

Stonechat, male

Stonechat, female

Digiscoping through the week.

Just a few shots from the past week.

Nothing too exciting except the Redpoll.

RINGED PLOVER

SKYLARK



GOLDEN PLOVER

GOLDFINCH

COMMON REDPOLL

This Redpoll was on a feeder in a private garden at St. Ives.

Believe it or not it was a lifer for me.

Spring is in the air.

These are a few images taken over the last few days. Not much about, thank God for the flies!!
I did put the Moth-trap out and got not one Moth.

Finally joined the Bittern club!

We went to Marazion on Saturday and finally caught up with the Bittern.
From then on it was all down hill, apart from the Fieldfares.
Nice to bump into Viv, we don't see him around enough. He is surely one of
Cornwall's finest birders.









Since having to cut down the Cherry tree last autumn, our garden birds have dropped substantially, however since the snow, some have been coming back to the feeders, and we have had a pair of Bullfinches visiting for the past week and on one day we had 2 pairs together. When we had the Cherry tree we were lucky to get one visit a year from Bullfinches.
Greenfinches and Siskins still seem to be thin on the ground, and no Brambling yet.