Month: September 2018
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29th September 2018 – Lelant Saltings and St Ives
We returned to the Hayle Estuary by taking the train from St Ives just along the most beautiful piece of coast to Lelant Saltings. It was then just a short walk along the road to the Old Quay Inn where good views of the estuary are to be had. By walking just a few more…
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28th September 2018 – St Ives
Normal service resumed: still a lovely sunny day but a sweater needed as we walked around St Ives. Not too many birds around but enough to provide some entertainment photographing them. Turnstone Turnstone Turnstone Great black-backed gull Great black-backed gull Immature gull Starlings And then I was distracted by these chaps:
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27th September 2018 -Kenidjack Valley, Cornwall
In yesterday’s blog I said the weather here in Cornwall was “as good as it gets”. Well, I was wrong as today it got even better: with not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of breeze the sun glared down on us all day long. We made our way to Kenidjack Valley which…
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26th September 2018 – Hayle Estuary Cornwall
On a beautifully sunny and warm September day (as good as it gets) we visited the Hayle Estuary in Cornwall. We walked from the station at Lelant along to the Old Quay Inn where we could see a plethora of gulls, waders (including oystercatchers, curlews, teal , wigeon and spotted redshank), Canada geese, a greylag…
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15th September 2018 – Chew Valley Lake
A pleasant trip to Chew Valley Lake today chatting to other birders and seeing a few birds from a distance at Herriotts Bridge and Herons Green. Great white egret on the lake from Herriotts Bridge Great white egret on the other side of the road Hobby at Herriotts Bridge Hobby at Herriotts Bridge Peregrine at…
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10th September 2018 – Majorca
Following some very heavy overnight thunderstorms we started the day with a visit to the smaller nature reserve of S’Albefuereta just north of Alcudia and then, after lunch, we returned to S’Albufera. It was extremely humid and most of the hides were quite unbearable. Perseverance was rewarded with good views (and some good shots) of…
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8th September 2018 – Majorca
When we first arrived in Majorca the first bird we saw was a hoopoe, which I gather is fairly common here on the island. On that occasion I didn’t have my camera with me and have spent the last couple of days searching around the farmland adjacent to the hotel where we are staying searching…
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6th September 2018 – Majorca
Well its just like what they say about London buses, you don’t see one for ages and then two come along together. Not really together, as the osprey we saw today was a long way from the last one in Somerset: this one was on the Parc Natural de S’Albufera in Majorca. We met a very…
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