Author: Paul Freestone

West Cornwall Tour for Two

Thursday 14th April 2022 We enjoyed a fantastic day on Thursday 14th April when we were joined on a west Cornwall tour by American birders Beata and Alex. Paul picked up the couple and their guest from Trevore Farm, St Buryan and the birding started immediately `with singing Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Blackbird […]

Scilly 2021 October Tour

23rd to 30th October 2021 Day 1 Our annual pilgrimage to Scilly saw a depleted group of just five of us on the magical Isles for our ‘teachers week’ Tour. We arrived on the first flight to St Mary’s and after dropping the bags off headed off across the island stopping as usual to check […]

Private Tour for Two

Godrevy and St Gothian Sands to start us off….. The weather was a bit unkind to us for our full day tour on 19th January with Mike and Denny. We managed to avoid the rain first thing at Godrevy and Gwithian but sadly no Choughs again on the headland. We did however, find a smart […]

Weekend Tour in west cornwall

The Hayle estuary produced the goods again, with Semipalmated Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank and Great Whit Egret amongst the highlights!

Recent Private Tours in West cornwall

We’ve been pretty busy through September with private tours booked every weekend! Up to now we haven’t had to go too far to see an array of species! Concentrating on North Cliffs, Gwithian and Hayle areas we have managed over 70 species, including the rarities like Semipalmated and Baird’s Sandpiper! Our first group of three […]

Bowling Green Marsh Revisited – August 2020

Another private tour in Devon saw us pick up Simon from Bere Ferrers at 8am and head off to Bowling Green Marsh. For those that have never heard of Bere Ferrers, don’t worry. It’s the back of beyond down tiny lanes and you will probably never visit there! We arrived at Bowling Green Marsh RSPB […]

Private tour – Yarner and Bowling Green Marsh, July 2020

Our first COVID free clients enjoyed a day long trip in Devon on 9th July! Tim and Hannah are two of our best clients and this is their third outing with us! We met early at Yarner Woods, East Dartmoor where we usually have our Spring visit in mid-may. With many of the specialist woodland […]

SCILLY TOUR – October 2019

Our Scilly ‘tour’ was once again full with six of us on the islands for a full week (19th to 25th). Before we had even set of we enjoyed close views of a stunning Red-throated Diver in Penzance Harbour! The sailing over was fairly uneventful with just a single Great Skua and two Arctic Skuas […]