Cornwall...Here we come!!

Myself and my birder's wife and the Capt have been away for a few days and this is the first of several reports of our time away:-

Thursday 16th August 2012

Around about 10am, the Capt arrived to whisk us away to Cornwall and the Scillies for a weeks worth of birding.

We made great time before coming to a grinding halt on the M5 near Brissal (Bristol) and sat motionless for 40 minutes in the outside lane watching about 15 police cars, fire engines and ambulances fly past.  The lady in the middle lane also caused us much amusement as she spent the 40 minutes rearranging her boot, the back of her car the and back seats of the car in front of her.....I just hope that she knew them otherwise that was just pure weird.  Anyway, fortunately, it appeared that the incident was not serious and we were soon on our way again.

After surviving the vile Exeter Services, we made our way into deepest Devon and Yarner Wood to see what we could find.  Unfortunately, the heavens opened and we decided not to venture any further than the car park and the hide nearby.  The hide proved to be very effective with many Coal Tits, Great Tits, Marsh Tits and Siskin.  As the rain continued to fall, we deciced that further bird watching was not on the agenda for the day and just pushed onto Penzance for our one night stay.

The evening at the Dock Inn proved to be very enjoyable with us coming second in the pub quiz while enjoying a few pints of "Doom".