CATCHING UP WITH THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

STILL A LOT OF THE SAME BIRDS IN THE HARBOUR AT NEWLYN.

THE NUTHATCH AND THE PINTAIL WERE AT COOMBE.

EVERYTHING ELSE WAS TAKEN AT MARAZION.

EIDER, fem

EIDER, male

GREAT NORTHERN DIVER

ICELAND GULL

ICELAND GULL

TURNSTONE

MEADOW PIPIT

ROCK PIPIT

CARRION CROW

REDSHANK

STONECHAT

 PINTAIL

NUTHATCH

AROUND WEST CORNWALL

I WENT FOR THE PURPLE HERON TODAY 

BUT IT KEPT IT'S DISTANCE.

THE REST WERE TAKEN AROUND WEST CORNWALL.

PURPLE HERON, juv.

AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER

AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER

RUFF

BAR-TAILED GODWITS

BAR-TAILED & BLACK-TAILED GODWIT FIGHTING

GREYLAG GEESE

MED. GULL, juv

REDSHANK

SANDWICH TERN

A SLOW START TO 2016.

A slow start for 2016 as we have all had the virus that's doing the rounds.

These were taken at Newlyn and St. Clements.

Great Northern Diver

Great Northern Diver

Great Northern Diver

Kingfisher

Purple Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

Rock Pipit

Spotted Redshank

Spotted Redshank

Spotted Redshank with Redshank

Turnstone

Turnstone

HAYLE AND SWANPOOL.

 JUST A FEW SHOTS TAKEN AROUND HAYLE ESTUARY AND SWANPOOL

CURLEW

BLACK-TAILED GODWIT

LESSER YELLOW-LEGS

REDSHANK

COOT

MOORHEN

LONG-TAILED DUCK,  juv.

SHOVELER

TUFTED DUCK

ROOK

A ROOK DOING HIS BEST CROSSBILL IMPRESSION.

A post at last!!

We have hardly done any birding in the last month but here are a few shots taken in the past
week. Sue has been laid-up with a bad back and I've been off with a virus. We are now looking forward to getting back into it.