Paul Veron in Guernsey emailed me this morning with another report of one of our gulls in Guernsey. L:AJ8 was ringed on 27 June 2010 on St George’s Island and sighted this morning at Fort le Crocq, near Richmond. Pauls Photos are featured here.

The history of Cirl Buntings in Cornwall [part 2] Click here to view the article published in Palores earlier this year which cover the period from the Millenium up to 2009.

This is a copy of Stuart Croft’s summary published on Birdguides. Stuart will be joining us on some of the bird cruises this winter. This year marked the fifth year of the Cirl Bunting Reintroduction Project — a joint venture between the RSPB, Paignton Zoo, the National Trust and Natural England to re-establish the Cirl Bunting in Cornwall. Male Cirl Bunting feeding a newly fledged chick (photo: Stuart Croft). The year saw a continued increase in the breeding population, which now stands […]

This is the first Newletter for the St Georges Island Gull Project. It includes an update of the project and details of all the sightings so far including two in Guernsey and one in France. Newsletter Oct 2010

At 9am this morning whilst wandering up the garden to let the chickens out I heard a chiffchaff-like call from the sycamores in the lane. I went back for my bins and lo and behold, what should be flitting around but a diminutive Yellow browed Warbler. It flicked across to the hawthorn tree above me and then proceeded to leaf-bathe in the heavy dew and preen. I went in and woke Chris and went back to check the bird was […]

Spoonbills are back on the River Tamar. Mike Beer reported 5 on the saltmarsh at Kingsmill Lake yesterday morning (14th October), one of which was colour ringed on the left leg, red over green over yellow. It could be a French bird but I’ll confirm this in the next few days. If you haven’t booked a place on our first cruise already, make sure you do soon to get a front seat to see these birds!

Malta has been shamed yet again by its illegal bird hunters, who have blasted a number of Spoonbills this week which were passing through the islands on migration from Europe to Africa. A flock of 22 Spoonbills were observed roosting in the north of Malta, but horrified birdwatchers scanning the flock the following morning saw that three of them had blood-soaked feathers after being shot by illegal hunters. Of the original 22 birds, only nine continued their journey to Africa, […]