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    Cornwall Birding

    Social - Fri 1st Oct Local birders are meeting for a drink this Friday at The Station House, Marazion at 8.30pm. It's nothing serious, just a chance to catch up with the latest gossip and news etc etc. Steve.
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    Cornwall Birding

    St Ives Island today Totals for the day included 28 Grey Phalarope, 7 Little Auk, 1 Arctic Skua (ad), 1 Arctic Tern, 1 Common Tern, 3 Red-throated Diver, several Great Northern Diver, 1 Manx Shearwater, 3 Balearic Shearwater, 3 Little Gull (all ads.), 1 Leach's Petrel, 130+ Common Scoter...
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    Cornwall Birding

    Pacific Diver at Carnsew Pool Two more images of the Pacific Diver today in better light.
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    Cornwall Birding

    Pacific Diver at Carnsew A couple of images of the Pacific Diver at Carnsew today shown below:
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    Cornwall Birding

    St Ives Island today - 31mph NW wind Totals from 7.30am to 11.30am were as follows: 1 Pomarine Skua 1 Arctic Skua 10 Great Skua 1 Common Tern 1 Grey Phalarope 1 Little Auk (2 more later) 5 Great Northern Diver 1 Black-throated Diver 1000's Kittiwakes, 50% of them juveniles. 15 Balearic...
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    Cornwall Birding

    St Ives sea watching conditions A 31mph North-west wind is forecast tomorrow, Thurs 5th Nov. This is worth a punt tomorrow. See you at the island!
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    Cornwall Birding

    Black Redstarts at St Just I've just taken a phone call today from Sam Williams to say there are five Black Redstarts in St Just in Penwith cemetary. One is a stunning adult male. Take a look at his blog images here: http://samandlisaswildlifephotos.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-birds.html
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    Cornwall Birding

    Black-browed Albatross' at Porthgwarra and Scilly I have been in touch with Bob Flood on Scilly regarding the two different sightings of Black-browed Albatross and confirm that there are in fact two different birds involved. The Porthgwarra bird was aged as a second year bird with a dark horn...
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    Cornwall Birding

    Baird's Sandpiper at Davidstow today I have posted some images on my blog of the Baird's seen this morning. www.swopticsphoto.com
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    Cornwall Birding

    Pendeen seawatch today Below are my totals from 6.30 am to 1.15pm today. Other observers may have counted more or less than those below. The totals exclude counts after 1.15pm. Wilsons Petrel, one at 6.45am just outside the rocks at c.600m and drifted slowly westwards and was on view for a...
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    Cornwall Birding

    Pendeen today The totals for the day are as follows: 261 Sooty Shearwater 5 Great Shearwater (1 close by the rocks) 2 Cory's Shearwater 30 Balearic Shearwater 2000+ Manx Shearwater 1 Yelkouan Shearwater (showing characteristics of) 1 Little Shearwater 34 Arctic Skua (nearly all adults) 1...
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    Cornwall Birding

    Glad you made it Jon and did at least see some good seabirds. Give me a call if you want to come down again. Steve
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    Cornwall Birding

    Hi Lawts - your best bet is to bookmark these local Cornish sites: www.cornwall-birding.co.uk for up to date sightings www.cbwps.org.uk for latest news www.scillypelagics.com for scilly pelagic updates www.sennen-cove.com/birds for west Cornwall bird news only www.swopticsphoto.com my site for...
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    Cornwall Birding

    There has been a pair of Siskins all summer in the Kenwyn area of Truro. They first appeared last summer.
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    Cornwall Birding

    Parus major springs to mind.
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