Out and About.

Today was the first time for a long while we have ventured out of Town. The reward was three year ticks...Whitethroat and Wheatear at Ninestones and Sandwich Terns at Par.

My visit to a Private Site this morning turned up a pair of G.S.Woodpeckers together, Nuthatch, Coal Tits, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Robin, Pied Wagtail and Corvids overhead. Again no Jay.

Dipper.

A Birds View.

A Selection of Butterflies.

Wood Pigeon

Wood Pigeon ….Columba palumbus

Robin

Robin ............Erithacus rubecula

Something a little different.

Gulls in Flight

Cross-eyed Butterfly.

Out and About

Yesterday was a mixed bag for Angie and myself.

Close up shots of wildfowl, Cormorants and a Heron in close proximity, Squirrel, an aerial display of two birds of prey ...a Sparrowhawk and Buzzard (we think ) and a very obliging Red Admiral butterfly all at a Swanpool Falmouth.

A few Yellowhammers were also seen around the Tregony area.

Pentire

Another great evening with Derek and his family resulted in another life tick....Manx Shearwater...okay I know it is a popular seabird but it was mine and Angie's first sighting and we eventually saw a hundred or so.
The evening was rounded off with another Nightjar sighting and the call of two males.
Regrettably I failed to glimpse the Nightjar this week and am unable to hear them but I can still say it was an enjoyable occasion.

Cormorant.

An earlier post of mine showing a Cormorant with outstretched wings titled ..*Drying Off*... is a little misleading.
I have recently learnt they do this to aid digestion and not to dry out the wings.

Bottallack.

Water and Trees..The Final Push.

Boardwalk and View

Golden Lion and The Hide Opposite.

Stithians Dam to the Golden Lion

Goonhilly Downs

The Lizard.

Bottallack.

Hell's Mouth and Newlyn