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It’s depressing when this comes up on Pointless and the only correct answers in the first category were ‘arctic’ and ‘gull’, and there were NO correct answers in the second category! Those 100 people need to be educated!

Are your Shags really early? The most advanced of ours in Cornwall are only just on full clutches!

A seagull drinks from a container marked “DOGS ONLY, NO SEAGULLS.”

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

Bung it on here for instant details and I can just download the record from there:
westcornwallrg.shinyapps.io/sightings/

That’s really confusing… Can’t think why birds that have previously wintered with you should then be on migration in the far SW.

70 in a session beats even our best day!!

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

Colour-ringed Herring Gull I hear you say…

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.

Great numbers, and it’ll be interesting to see where your controls are from