Monday 25 July 2022

Cornwall: Choughs, Beavers & Cetaceans. A Naturetrek tour July 2022.

With barely 24hours notice I was asked to lead a Naturetrek tour in my home county of Cornwall due to the assigned leader contracting Covid.

Fortunately I was familiar with all of the places on the itinerary and was excited to show our clients some of the best wildlife & flora in the UK.

Here is a set of photos from each day so that my new found friends can view and enjoy.

Day 2. Lizard Point to Kynance Cove.

The old lifeboat slipway at the Lizard

Grey Seal with a Ballan Wrasse

Grey Seal with a Ballan Wrasse

Grey Seal with a Ballan Wrasse 

Hottentot Fig

Restharrow

Ladies Bedstraw

Sea Aster

Dyers Greenweed

Red-billed Chough

Red-billed Chough

Red-billed Chough

Sea Carrot

Rock Samphire

Bloody Cranesbill

Day 3. The Cornwall Beaver Project. Ladock, Truro,

 

Black tailed Skimmer Dragonfly

Beaver pond

Beaver dam

Chicory

Azure Damselfly

Ringlet Butterfly

Tree Bumblebees taken over a nestbox

European Beaver

European Beaver

European Beaver

European Beaver

Beaver lodge
Bevaer
Signs of Beaver activity

Signs of Beaver activity


Day 4. Boat trip in Falmouth Bay and beyond.

 

Sandwich Tern

Sandwich Terns

Northern Gannet

Manx Shearwater

Manx Shearwaters

Northern Gannet

Common Dolphins

Common Dolphins

Common Dolphins

Common Dolphin

Common Dolphin

1st Summer Northern Gannet

Manx Shearwater

 

Day 5. Windmill Farm, Cornwall Wildlife Trust Reserve. The Lizard.

 

Common Toad

Meadow Grasshopper

Male Adder

Herring Gull at the main pool

Dog Rose


Hoverfly

Greater Birds-foot Trefoil

5 spot Burnet Moth

Marsh Woundwort

Lesser Water Plantain

Yellow Bartsia

Fresh Cornish Pasties for lunch!
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




1 comments:

Jasmina said...

What a wonderful collection of images. You certainly fulfilled the bill - well done and at such short notice....