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Norfolk - January 2025 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
After a (thankfully!) uneventful journey from Cornwall we arrived at our superb accommodation in Norfolk at 1430hrs and once all introductions were complete and our bags safely in the digs, we headed out for a few hours before evening meal to nearby Lyndford Arboretum. The light wasn’t great but we started picking up our first […]
New Years Bird List Booster 2025 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
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 […]
New Years Bird List Booster 2024 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
Sunday 7th January 2024 Our first tour of 2024 saw 7 intrepid guests take on the challenge of seeing over 93 (last years record) species of bird in a single day. We started at 8am at HQ with the usual Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Robin, Herring Gull etc etc whilst we loaded up the bus, then […]
New Years Bird List Booster 2024 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
Sunday 14th January 2024 Six guests with Paul as guide, headed out from HQ at 8am with a record target of 96 species to beat. Tide times and the disappearance of one or two previous target birds meant a different approach to the birding today and we started our list on the estuary at Hayle. […]
Norfolk Winter Tour 2023 - Cornwall Bird Watching Tours
Report from our Norfolk Tour 3rd to 9th December 2024 DAY 1 – HOLKHAM AND STIFFKEY After arriving the night before at our wonderful accommodation at The Crown in Mundford, we were keen to get out and do some birding! The plan was to head straight to the North Coast but a flock of Waxwings […]