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TomSmith
Saturday 8th March 2008, 16:26
I posted this in the rather quiet Cornwall Birding (http://birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=78333) thread the other day but didn't get any answers, so thought I'd try it here instead:

Hi,

I'm going to be spending a few days in Cornwall next week. Can anybody recommend good birding sites within, say, an hour's drive of Newquay? Places with some non-birding interest would be particularly appreciated by my girlfriend...


Thanks,


Tom
Marmot
Saturday 8th March 2008, 16:36
Hope you are not planning on getting there on Monday as there is some extremly severe gales forecast then.
Marmot
Saturday 8th March 2008, 19:07
Hope this site might help

http://www.cornwall-birding.co.uk/
Feathered one
Saturday 8th March 2008, 23:08
Have a word with John-Henry, he lives down there, bound to know some good sites.

http://www.birdforum.net/member.php?u=15559

Malc
TomSmith
Thursday 13th March 2008, 19:56
Hope you are not planning on getting there on Monday as there is some extremly severe gales forecast then.

Thanks for the concern - luckily we're not going down until tomorrow, so should be okay.

According to "Where to watch birds in Britain", Newquay itself is pretty good for seabirds - although the birds don't like the area round the sewage outlet so much now that the sewage is treated. Every cloud has a silver lining, I guess...
Conorbirda2
Monday 17th March 2008, 02:04
Thanks for the concern - luckily we're not going down until tomorrow, so should be okay.

According to "Where to watch birds in Britain", Newquay itself is pretty good for seabirds - although the birds don't like the area round the sewage outlet so much now that the sewage is treated. Every cloud has a silver lining, I guess...

Hope you got the Alpine Swift at Pentire Point!! I have PM'd you.
Conorbirda2
Monday 17th March 2008, 02:05
Hope this site might help

http://www.cornwall-birding.co.uk/

Thanks for the Plug, Marmot.:t:
TomSmith
Monday 24th March 2008, 02:42
Hope you got the Alpine Swift at Pentire Point!! I have PM'd you.

No - didn't even know it was there! (Pentire Point was pretty much the only bit of Newquay I didn't get to). I'm not hugely into vagrants, though, and I saw plenty of Alpine Swifts in Greece last year anyhow, so not too disappointed... Thanks for the message, anyway.