More Chough images from September

Here are a few more images of a couple of Choughs I saw near Nanquidno when I visited Cornwall for a a weekend at the end of September. I have photographed these two previously in fact since 2009 and they can usually be spotted around this area. Hopefully for a good few more years.

September Choughs

I had  long weekend in Marazion at the end of September and had some opportunities for photography. I as fairly quiet however apart from a Spotted Crake on the marshes which I decided to to miss and hen when I changed my mind it had gone. I had some lovely walks in the Autumn sunshine however at Porthgwarra St.Agnes and Sennen. I did come across these Choughs at Nanquidno and took these images.

Cornish Choughs

Thought I would put up a a couple of my favourite Cornish Chough images from last year to highlight the fact I have started a new blog. Landscape and Cityscape phootography by Anthony Miners. Link can be found on my blog list. I will add to it slowly I decided to start a new blog just to highlight some of the other images I have captured over the years. Many will be images featuring Cornish scenes but I have become interested in Cityscapes and will put some images up that I have captued in London, Rome and Paris.

West Penwith Choughs

These are some of the images that I took a couple 0f weeks ago during my visit home to Cornwall and they feature some of those Adult Choughs that frequent the area of West Penwith. On one occasion I was photographing Sea Birds and 2 Choughs landed no more than 20 feet from me. Hopefully these close encouners with Cornish Choughs will increase during the forthcoming years as long as their recent breeding success continues.

Young Choughs

Whilst I was in Coirnwall last week I spent some time photographing the the local Chough Population at the Lizard and West Penwith. The images from the West Penwith Choughs will be shown in my next post. In this post I have included some images of the young Choughs on the day they fledged from their nest at the Lizard. These images capture the first few forays on to the rocks and ledges of the surrounding cliffs. As you can see the youngters were still very dependent on the adult Choughs who seemed to be encouraging them out from their nest. I certainly wish them all the best over the next few months and hope they are more lucky than last years youngsters. I very much hope that a good percentage of this years Chough fledglings which stands at a record of 15 can go on to to become breeding birds in Cornwall.

Lizard Choughs Part 2

These images of the two original adult Choughs were taken last week at the Lizard. The pair were often seen flying from their nest going to get food to feed their young. Adult Choughs do not breed until they are at least 2 years of age and since they have successfully bred for ten years now both of these birds must be at least 12 years of age.

Lizard Point Choughs

I returned late last night having spent a week in Cornwall so I will try to catch up with some other blogs this week. During my week in Cornwall I managed to photograph a small number of Cornish Choughs, eleven in total, in three different locations so will be showing some of these images in the next few posts. I have started with some images of the long standing pair of Choughs from the Lizard Point who have been breeding from that location for ten years now. If you look closely you will see that they are not ringed unlike all juvunile Choughs now born in Cornwall.

Cornish Choughs

This is the second time that I have put this post on my blog as the first time I posted this yesterday it disappeared mysteriously. As I have not been out with the camera recently I thought I would post some of my favourite images of Cornish Choughs that I have captured recently during the past 2 years. This is in celebration of the ten year anniversary of the return of breeding Choughs to Cornwall. The images were taken near Nanquidno and Cot Valley near St.Just. I hope you like them.

Return of the Black and Golds

Well I suppose Black and Gold may be stretching it a bit but most Cornish people will know what I mean when I refer to this. The return of breeding Choughs to Cornwall must be seen as one of the best wildlife highlights to occur in my lifetime and something I am quite thrilled about. I remember being told about the Cornish Chough being the emblem bird of Cornwall whilst attending local Schools and how they disappeared from the Cornish cliffs in the 1960s or early 197os. Having read about their return to Cornwall it took me a few years to actually see any but during the last couple of years I have usually spotted the Choughs that inhabit the cliffs near to Sennen and last weekend I located two in their usual place. These birds looked quite young and had a glossy sheen to their feathers and allowed me to get within 20 metres of them. I have decided include my best six images of them as I am never tired of seeing them or looking for them in their natural habitat.