We thought that 2023 was an odd year for Barn Owls, but 2024 seemed to continue the trend! The very wet spring was perhaps a boom for early ...

Over the long bank holiday weekend we had a chance to make our first visits to Barn Owl nestboxes across part of our patch. It was a long sl...

Mullion Island Cormorants are already well into their breeding season now, with some chicks almost ready to fledge. Our regular count from p...

It's not often we start our winter sewage works ringing in December, but a couple of weekends of cold weather recently gave us the chanc...

After one of the strangest springs weather-wise, the Barn Owl season seemed to be all over the place in 2023. We had regular sites unoccupie...

Last month saw us able to mist net Storm Petrels down at Porthgwarra on two nights, catching a total of 119 birds. Of these, 113 were unring...

We took the opportunity of a fine evening to do a quick Great Black-backed Gull nest count on Mullion Island yesterday. Quite bizarrely, alm...

We've not blogged anything for a while, but with a quiet winter devoid of Siberian Chiffchaffs there's not much to report! But this ...

It's been a strange summer for lots of our regular projects, with freak weather, bird flu and remnants of Covid still making life diffic...

With spring migrants back in earnest and everything singing and nest-buiilding, it was a good time to have another look at the Portreath Kit...

With the run of fine weather this week, it's the perfect chance to have a first look at some of our breeding seabirds. First stop yester...

Storm Eunice brought a fair amount of destruction to the southwest, but there was one arrival that was a rather unexpected. When going out o...

Perhaps it's the fact that the weather is so wet and windy in Cornwall at the moment that another of our juvenile gulls has made the tri...

The middle of January 2022 saw the first spell of cold, calm weather, perfect to start our winter ringing at our local sewage treatment work...

We recently received details from BTO of some colour-ringed gulls reported to us over the last cpouple of weeks and it's quite an amazin...