North and South Coasts

Early start this morning for some surfing photography, wish I had stayed in bed!!!!!!!! Spotted some Plovers flying along the beach on the North Coast so was my first image. (Despite the order google wishes to put them in) I then moved onto Carnsew Basin, where I thought I spotted a Gooseander, this later turned out to be a Merganser when englarged on the computer.  From there I went onto Ryan's Field loads of Lapwings, Gulls etc. Finally I called in at Marazion out of the van to have a quick look and got really nice views of a Bittern, typical as the camera was in the van. I then seen it again although distant and then another one at the other end of the marsh, so there are at least two there now. So a dull cloudy day in Cornwall but things are looking up More birdlife and less tourists!!!!

Red Breasted Merganser Carnsew Basin

Redshank, Ryan's Field

Bittern Marazion

Little Egret, Marazion

Lapwing at Ryan's Field

Plovers at Sandy Acres Beach

Bittern at Marazion

Apparently this Bittern has been there a short time, but somewhat elusive, as usual. I managed to get a couple of distant shots today as it did a circuit of the marsh. It did re-appear about 4pm and flew behind the railway line and into the East end of the marsh. Couple of other pictures today from the usual suspects.

Bittern

Bittern

Grey Heron

Little Egret with Sunday Lunch

Flaps down for landing

Quick Post from Marazion

Hi apologies for the lack of posts lately, hopefully things will be back to normal soon and images will appear on a more regular basis.  I also need to catch up on a lot of blogs, which I will do  soon. Well someone spotted a Great White Egret going into the reeds on the marsh about 20 minutes before I got there. After waiting a short while I thought I would take my chances down the East end of the marsh and hopefully get a closer shot. Arrgh, sods law as soon as I moved the Great White Egret flew and landed not far from where I was originally standing, so I got a distant shot while everybody else got close ups!!(B----ger)  Still I did get a record shot. So some pictures from my first day out in a while.

Small Sunday Post

Ok I haven't been able to get out and about lately. To busy and crap weather when I am not busy. So bit of an image drought at present. Hopefully that will soon be rectified when winter visitors start to arrive. Meanwhile all I have is one wheatear at Marazion last week.

Hawkes Point Mini Sea Watch

Went across Hawkes Point for some surfing pictures but by the time my stupid surfer pals got me there it was to late, tide to high. I stood for a while and noticed some Gannets fishing just offshore further up towards Carbis Bay. So I went up there instead. Although subject distance was someway off and the light was crap, I did manage some record shots. All below I will need help on a couple especially the fish???

Gannet

Gannet Diving

Sandwich Tern

Gull?

Grey Seal

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? Looked a bit ominous this one!!!!

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Mull 2012 Tour back on?

With the popularity of Ebirder tours increasing all the 2012 tours are full.  However after a few emails with Marcus Conway of Ebirder there is a chance he may run an extra week or two. To register your interest see here http://ebirder.net/MullBirdPhotographyTour.aspx . It definately worth going Mull has a great variety of bird and wildlife and mine experience of the place last year was fantastic. I have already registered my interest to see if he can generate an extra week or two. A couple of images as an example all taken on Mull