New Years Bird List Booster 2025
Sunday 12th January 2025 Determined not to miss out on Blackcap and Long-tailed Tit like last time, today’s group gathered at the 0830hrs start time in the back garden of Cornwall Birdwatching Tours HQ! We were finally greeted with good weather and with a good start we were confident it would be another 90+ species […]
New Years Bird List Booster 2025
Wednesday 8th January 2025 Seven brave souls joined Paul today on our 2nd NYBLB day tour in less than favourable conditions! In fact it rained all day! Our day of listing usually starts around HQ with a few commoner birds but at 0830hrs it was still hardly light and the drizzle forced us straight into […]
West Cornwall Winter Day Tour
Saturday 11th January 2025 Seven guests joined Paul as guide today on our first Winter Bird Tour of 2025. There weather wasn’t great once again! We picked up Corinne at Penzance and started our day in the harbour area with the usual Turnstones and Gulls and a scan over the rocks produced a female Sparrowhawk, […]
New Years Bird List Boosters 2025
January 2nd 2025 Our first NYBLB of 2025 saw 7 guests with Paul as guide, head out from Connor Downs HQ at 08.30hrs. We started the list as soon as everyone arrived with Blackcap, Long-tailed Tit and flyover Woodpigeon and Starling! Our first destination was Stithians Lake with an initial stop at The Golden Lion […]
Somerset Levels in Winter
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 – We had a full bus to visit Somerset with the Cornwall Birding Ladies group. The main attraction was the evening Starling Murmurations at RSPB Ham Wall, so we knew it was going to be a long day. We set off at 7.30am and after a short comfort break en-route, we […]
Isles of Scilly – Oct 26th-Nov 2nd 2024
Our annual ‘Bus man’s holiday’ to Scilly in ‘Teachers Week’ saw just 5 of us head out this year, the team depleted due to injury and family commitments. With two flying out early, we picked up a golf buggy from Scilly Cart Co. to pick up the others from the Scillonian and allow us to […]
Scilly Tour – October 2024
Another amazing week guiding our 8 guests on the magical isles of Scilly! Six of us, with Paul as guide, joined the Scillonian III at Penzance on Friday 4th October for our 8 day tour of Scilly. The birding started as soon as we were on board when a flock of TWENTY-SIX (!) Chough flew […]
Majorca – Spring 2024
“Another fantastic short tour in Majorca, beautiful weather, amazing scenery and fabulous Birds”
The Avalon Marshes – 2024
Another fantastic set of tours on the Avalon Marshes in 2024!
West Cornwall – Tour for Two
January 2024 Private tour booked for the lovely Becki and Andrew on a cold winter Friday in West Cornwall. We set off from HQ at 8.30 and headed straight to St Agnes Head where a Snow Bunting had been reported. Once there we were greeted with blue skies, sunshine and stunning views to the North […]