I’m back
down in my beloved Cornwall
for a week en famille as it’s the
half term holiday. Usually when I’m down at this time of year there isn’t much
that I want to see but amazingly this time there were quite a few birds about that I
need for my Cornwall list so I was keen to come down. To be specific, my
target birds are: the Little Bunting at
Gulval, the Mandarin Duck at Drift, the Ring-billed Gull and possible American
Herring Gull at Hayle, the King Eider at Maenporth, the American Wigeon
(either near Newlyn or at Kingsmill near Plymouth)
and the Bearded Tit at Marazion. In addition I was going to have a try for Jack
Snipe (which I still need) just in case I could find one at a location I’d been
told about. So plenty of things to chase after with varying chances of success
and opportunity.
Our journey
down yesterday was uneventful. Had it been me coming down on my own I’d have
been off at first light and would have stopped off en route for the American Wigeon at Kingsmill but instead we left
late morning (the general inertia of getting four people ready to depart) and stopped off at Ikea in Bristol to
pick up some items for the Cottage. This meant that we didn’t arrive until
after dark so there was no chance to sneak in a cheeky twitch. Instead we did a
spot of food shopping, got the cottage booted up and spent the evening
inspecting the house to see what chores were going to need to be done. As I’ve
said before, it’s always a bit of a busman’s holiday coming down to the cottage
but just being back down here makes it all worth while.
I’d not
brought my moth trap down with me but I did manage to find a few months dotted
about the house. I think that they are Parsnip Moths though without my micro book and with several similar looking Depressaria species
I’ll have to wait until I get home before ID’ing it.
Parsnip Moth?
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