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29 May 2024
Barn Owl throuple and other odd goings on
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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...
8 April 2024
Spanish Black-head and record Cormorant numbers
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Mullion Island Cormorants are already well into their breeding season now, with some chicks almost ready to fledge. Our regular count from p...
5 December 2023
Start of the winter Chiffs
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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...
30 July 2023
Barn Owl 2023 update
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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...
14 July 2023
Stormies on the move
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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...
24 May 2023
Strange goings on at Mullion Island
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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...
18 May 2023
Herring Gull and Kittiwake wanderings
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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 ...
19 October 2022
Barn Owl 2022 update
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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...
17 April 2022
Portreath Kittiwakes
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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...
22 March 2022
So the breeding season starts
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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...
2 March 2022
Storm Eunice delivers a lost swan
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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...
13 February 2022
Our ninth Herring Gull visits France
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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...
27 January 2022
Sibe Chiff overload at the sewage works
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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...
19 January 2022
Eight colour-ringed gull species from eight countries!
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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...
31 December 2021
Our first Herring Gull to Spain
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As 2021 draws to a close, we had an exciting late Christmas present in the form of our first ever Herring Gull sighting from Spain. As we se...
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