Paul Freestone and i carried out our second ringing session early yesterday morning at the Watermill wildlife garden and were delighted to trap and ring this splended Nuthatch along with Coal Tit and male Blackcap.

Nuthatch

Coal Tit

Male Blackcap

Jay at the feeding station

This weekend Paul Freestone ,Kerry and myself have carried out some more work at the Watermill wildlife garden, we have erected several nestboxes and an additional feeding station opposite the patio area.we also carried out our first ever ringing session which although cut short by rain produced a Grey Wagtail and a Great Ti.,A selection below shows some of the activity and some of the other birds seen around the feeding station in the last couple of days,other highlights have included our first Coal tit on the feeders ,flyover Swift and Whimbrel and confirmation that Nuthatch and Grey Wagtail are breeding in the garden.

Paul freestone and i erecting the bird nets ,Paul is an experienced ringer with a permit for carrying out this work.

The first bird ever to be trapped and ringed at the Watermill wild life garden a cracking adult male Grey Wagtail,what a nice start.Here Paul is taking down the birds biometrics.

Adult Grey Wagtail

Adult male Grey Wagtail 

Paul and i erecting one of the several new nest boxes

Great Tit nest building in one of the newly erected nest boxes ,it had only been put up the day before.

Goldfinch

Jay

Long Tailed Tit

Great Tit

Dunnock

Female Grey Wagtail ,confirmed today feeding young on the stream .

Had this Common Sandpiper and Whimbrel today on the Hayle estuary.

More pics of the Spoonbill yesterday on the Hayle estuary.

This first winter Yellow legged gull dropped in on the Hayle estuary briefly earlier in the week.

With the kind permission of Frank Symmes the landlord and owner of the Watermill pub in Lelant Cornwall Kerry and myself have set up a bird feeding station ,the copses ,gardens and the surrounding countryside offer an abundance of birds and other wildlife,through this blog we hope to keep you updated with as much news as possible.

 Myself next to the feeding station ,with the help of Frank and my good friend Paul Freestone we plan to set up more feeders and will soon be erecting various nestboxes .

 View of the back of the pub with its still working water wheel.

 View from the patio area Grey Wagtail is often seen here and actually bred a couple of years ago , the copse also has Jay ,Great Spotted Woodpecker,Coal Tit ,Blackcap and occasional Nuthatch and Green Woodpecker,i have also had Pied and Spotted flycatcher here in autumn.

 View from the bridge looking downstream towards the northern copse and in the distance the feeding station area ,this part of the stream is an excellent place to watch dDragonflies and Damoiselles in summer.

 View looking from the bridge towards the grounds of Tempest and surrounding farmland ,we recently had Barn Owl monitoring the hedgerows.

 View looking upstream from the bottom garden ,the stream often holds Brown Trout .

 View from the bottom garden looking towards the northern copse and stream.

Although the feeding station has only been up and running a few days  the Goldfinches have already discovered the niger seed.

Willow Warbler one of two at the feeding station area 23/4/16

Male Chaffinch on the feeders.

A few recent pics of the immature Spoonbill on Hayle estuary and drake Mandarin duck and Great crested grebe at Drift res.

Had a good day sunday too ,Garganey and Marsh Harrier at Marazion marsh and Ring Ouzel at Polggiga.

Drake Garganey

Drake Garganey

Male Marsh Harrier

Ring Ouzel

The weekend got off to good start with these male and female Kentish Plovers,the female is on the right of the bottom picture.