The Autumn count for this year's Winter Gull Survey is around the corner! There are plenty of sites to choose from across the UK! Get involved this September 29th and help with essential monitoring 🌍➡️Visit bto.org/wings to learn more and sign up. #WinGS_UK

This Sunday marks the first count of the WeBS winter core period, which runs from September to March (inclusive)! These seven counts are esp. vital for monitoring our winter migrants and answering important questions. So let's get out and count our birds!

734 records have been uploaded onto BirdTrack in Cornwall this year. The Longevity record for Rock Pipit stands at 9yrs and 4 months. In 2019 a female colour marked in Norway was spotted in East Lothian 8 days later having travelled 868km. Cornwall Birds

A new Yellow-browed Warbler colour-ringing project has launched across Britain and Ireland – and birders are being asked to report any sightings: bit.ly/47BVhvN

Did my 2 Wetland Bird Survey counts this afternoon at Pendarves Lake & Cargenwen reservoirs. Very quiet birdlife, a few dragonflies around though. Mixed day for weather, unusual looking sun this morning at work, then thunderstorms captured brilliantly by Jo-Shreeve followed by sunshine

The therapeutic sound of rain in the local woodland. Round the block from the village this afternoon making a Complete List for BirdTrack . Nice to see a Firecrest and a Southern Hawker dragonfly. full list of birds can be found here - app.bto.org/birdtrack/pubc…

Join the Winter Gull Survey this September 29th to help track gull movements during Autumn & contribute to crucial conservation efforts 🌍 Key counts can be made from now until October 6th! ➡️Sign up & discover local gull roost sites at bto.org/wings #WinGS_UK Wetland Bird Survey

Huge bird migration shown by Ploddingbirder yesterday. House Martins streaming past Dungeness Power station. The bird observatory there Dungeness Bird Observatory reported 126,000 Swallows departing, 500 Sand Martin and 84,00 House Martin. To think, I was pleased the other day with 52 Swallow.

Our Newsletter for the BTO Community in Cornwall has been issued. If you'd like a copy of it please DM me your email address. Contains updates on surveys, a young persons volunteering trip to Orkney, great birds in a Cornish garden, a Med Gull ID Class and much more Cornwall Birds

Where are the BTO Cuckoos now? 🤔 10 Cuckoos are in Africa, Cuach Torc seems to be heading south once more after his visit to Germany, and we’ve sadly had to say goodbye to Trent. Follow their journeys ➡️ bto.org/cuckoos 🌍 #BTOScience #Ornithology

The migration routes and wintering grounds of Scottish Arctic Skuas have been revealed in a new study led by BTO Scotland: bit.ly/3TJjESz

Warm sunshine for a BirdTrack walk from Ryans field to Carnsew today on the Hayle estuary. Great Med Gull roost, nearly 200 birds, three with colour rings. Also first Lapwing back for winter. Headstarted Curlew 2A still present Full list below Cornwall Birds app.bto.org/birdtrack/pubc…

with Tropical Storm Isaac crossing the Atlantic, having been upgraded to a Cat1 hurricane then downrated back to Tropical Storm, Cornwall tomorrow stands to be hit with torrential rain and gale force winds so I’m doing my BTO Winter Gull Roosting survey tonight

Impressed with today. 46 species of bird at Hayle including my first Comma of the year, saw a Stoat on a walk to the local woods this afternoon & this evening 237 Herring Gulls on my BTO Winter Gull Roosting survey. To top it off, two calling Tawny Owl at home when I parked up

The first of 390 Black Tern records uploaded onto BirdTrack in Cornwall was on 18th August 1968, 5 birds around St Ives Bay/Hayle estuary. The Peak count is 67 observed on a seawatch at Pendeen which accounts for 66 of the 390 records. Most sightings are Aug/Sept/Oct. Cornwall Birds

This photo shows the clear differences between adult Med and Black-headed Gulls. The Med in the foreground has white wings whereas the Black-headed has black tips. Also check the black "mask" behind the eye of the Med and chunkier bill. Brigit Strawbridge

Pleased to pick these up this morning on the camera trap

With north-east winds for many at the moment, Redwing are starting to arrive right on cue to their historic reporting rates. Migrating to the UK at night if you are outside this evening listen out for their 'tseep' flight call overhead.

The Reporting Rate for Redwing in Cornwall as per records put onto BirdTrack . Many people anticipating their arrival but with southerly and southwesterly winds we may have to wait another week until the wind swings round to the north. Cornwall Birds

The first YBW record put onto BirdTrack in Cornwall was on 26th Oct 1982 by Mr John Martin. Since then 5339 more records have been uploaded. A count of 15 was submitted for a visit to Helston although the other bigger counts are from ringing in the valleys down west Cornwall Birds