MARCH 2021 BIRD BLOG: LOCKED DOWN WITH THE LOOE EARLY BIRDS

Cormorants with altricial young, March 2019
January 28th. Ping! An email message has dropped into my inbox from Claire Lewis, resident warden on Looe Island. She has seen the first Cormorant’s egg of the year! The seabird nesting season has begun! Cormorants are truly early birds and on Looe Island many start nesting in January
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JUNE BIRD BLOG:  Springtime on the Estuary and the Trials of Life

Shelduck pair on the estuary in March
In mid-May my daily exercise walk shifted. I forsook the cliff path and the beach: the spring migration was mostly over. I decided it was time to return to the estuary, and follow the fortunes of its resident breeding birds. I had spotted a Shelduck pair on the river in March and I wa
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February Bird Blog – A Walk by the Tidewater

Welcome to the first of our monthly bird blogs by local naturalist Derek Spooner. February 12th. Early morning; I part the curtains and peer anxiously at the weather. For three days Looe has been hammered by Storm Ciara. I need to carry out a water-birds count on the Looe estuary, and
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