Cornish Choughs near St. Just

I spent a great week in Cornwall during the end of June and even managed a swim in the sea at Watergate bay. I spent some time with my camera and managed to catch up with two three families of Choughs who were about the cliffs with newly fledged young. This has been a fantastic year for the  Choughs who have produced about 23 fledged youngsters. I captured this family of Choughs near St. Just and more than happy with some of the images I took.

The Lizard Choughs 2015

I had a brief visit to Marazion,Cornwall in June and spent some time photographing the Lizard and Porthleven Choughs. My favourite Chough images were obtained on the morning I was travelling back as the light was great. I spent about thirty minutes close up with  the Lizard adult pair and one of their offspring, They had five young this year and there was no sight of the other four but I believe they are still surviving and still out on the cliffs.

Choughs at Kynance Cove

Here are a few more images of the Chough family from the Lizard taken in June. The images were taken  on different days, the first two glorious sunshine the secod two early morning on an overcast cloudy day.

Kynance Choughs

Here are a few more of the Chough images I took at Kynance cove in June. A far as I know the young Choughs continue to thrive and I recently read a report of someone seeing 15 Choughs go to roast in West Cornwall I believe. I may try and catch up with a them in September when I hope to go down for a few days.

Cornish Choughs at Kynance cove

I have been very busy at work recently so there have been a lack of posts. I managed a few days in Cornwall in June until an eye infection curtailed my photography. I did howwever manage three glorious mornings at Kynance cove where I managed to locate the Lizard Chough family and spent a few hours taking several images. I still have a number to go through and edit but had a great time photographing them. Originally there were three young but one disappeared the week I was down photograhing them. Hope the remaining two are conituning to thrive.