Itβs depressing when this comes up on Pointless and the only correct answers in the first category were βarcticβ and βgullβ, and there were NO correct answers in the second category! Those 100 people need to be educated!
29.04.2025 17:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Are your Shags really early? The most advanced of ours in Cornwall are only just on full clutches!
23.04.2025 22:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A seagull drinks from a container marked βDOGS ONLY, NO SEAGULLS.β
every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos
06.02.2025 12:32 β π 23851 π 3436 π¬ 476 π 218
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Bung it on here for instant details and I can just download the record from there:
westcornwallrg.shinyapps.io/sightings/
20.01.2025 19:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thatβs really confusingβ¦ Canβt think why birds that have previously wintered with you should then be on migration in the far SW.
19.01.2025 21:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
70 in a session beats even our best day!!
19.01.2025 21:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Surprise 2,000 (mostly small) gulls on Restronguet Creek for the @btobirds.bsky.social Winter Gull Survey this evening, of which I reckon 70 Common Gull were the most notable #WinGS
19.01.2025 21:05 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Colour-ringed Herring Gull I hear you sayβ¦
19.01.2025 19:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
An impressive 52 Chiffchaff mist-netted in a couple of hours at one of our west Cornwall sewage works sites this morning. Included just the one Sibe Chiff and a retrap of a bird originally ringed in Hampshire in August.
12.01.2025 17:07 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Great numbers, and itβll be interesting to see where your controls are from
06.01.2025 23:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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