CATCHING UP WITH A FEW BIRDS.

A FEW SHOTS FROM THE LAST WEEK OR SO THAT NEVER GOT POSTED.

SUE HASN'T BEEN OUT SO NO DRAGONS OR BUTTERFLIES.

THESE WERE TAKEN AT STITHIAN'S RESERVOIR AND 

AROUND THE CLIFFS OF NEWQUAY AND FALMOUTH.

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE

GREAT-CRESTED GREBE

DIPPER

GREY WAGTAIL, JUV

STONECHAT

CORN BUNTING

YELLOW HAMMER

KESTREL

HERRING GULL

PEREGRINE

RECENT DRAGONFLIES

HERE ARE A FEW DRAGONFLIES TAKEN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

BEAUTIFUL DEMOISELLE

COMMON DARTER

EMPEROR

GOLDEN-RINGED

GOLDEN-RINGED

KEELED SKIMMER

KEELED SKIMMER

KEELED SKIMMER

SOUTHERN HAWKER

WE WENT FOR THE HEATH FRITILLARY A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WHICH

WAS REALLY A BIT LATE BUT WE DID SEE A FEW STRAGGLERS.

HEATH FRITILLARY

PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER AT GOTHIAN SANDS.

AFTER MUCH DEBATE WE THINK THIS IS A PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER

AND NOT AN AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER.

CORN BUNTING & GREEN HAIRSTREAK.

WE HAVE BEEN OUT AROUND THE COAST AGAIN IN THE LAST

FEW DAYS, ONCE TO THE NEWQUAY AREA AND YESTERDAY TO 

PORTHLEVEN AND ON TO GWITHIAN. 

SURPRISED AT HOW MANY PEREGRINES ARE AROUND. 

ALSO LOTS OF BUTTERFLIES AND DRAGONFLIES.

GREEN HAIRSTREAK

COMMON BLUE

LARGE SKIPPER

SCARLET-TIGER MOTH

GOLDEN-RINGED DRAGONFLY

CORN BUNTING

CORN BUNTING

LINNET

FULMAR

PEREGRINE FALCON

PEREGRINE FALCON

RAZORBILL

SAND MARTIN

PEREGRINES AND DRAGONS

 WE WENT OUT TO THE COAST YESTERDAY AND STUMBLED ACROSS

  A FAMILY OF PEREGRINES. THERE WERE 3 VERY NOISY JUVENILES.

THEY DIDN'T SEEM BOTHERED BY US ALTHOUGH I CAN ASSURE YOU 

ALL THAT WE WERE NOT AS CLOSE AS IT LOOKS IN SOME SHOTS.

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ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, THIS IS THE FIRST 

SOUTHERN HAWKER OUT OF OUR POND THIS YEAR.

MARSH FRITILLARY AT BRENEY COMMON.

YESTERDAY WE WENT UP TO BRENEY COMMON HOPING

 FOR MARSH FRITILLARY AND WERE NOT 

DISAPPOINTED, THEY WERE IN ABUNDANCE.

SUCH A PRETTY BUTTERFLY AND QUITE SCARCE 

SO TIMING IS EVERYTHING. OF COURSE YESTERDAY'S 

BRILLIANT SUNSHINE ALSO HELPED.

 ALSO A FEW SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARIES AROUND.