After a productive day Fair Isle Bird Obs (Woodchat, RB Shrike, Icterine, Barred Warbler, Wood Warbler) I went for a walk this evening and bumped into this Marsh Warbler, before catching up with a Wryneck. Then just as I arrived home I noticed a large fin...3 orcas!! Orca 📸 Alex Penn !

BioBlitz 2023 is returning to campus on Saturday 29 April. The event will be full of nature filled activities, including a species count and local organisations running stalls and activities. Follow BioBlitz Penryn to find out more 🐸 🌿 🐭

.....And whilst studying at University, up pops W:226. A Penryn University chick ringed 2018, now 5 years old and looking like a stunning adult. Surprisingly, only the 9th resighting for this traveled bird. Photo credits to Charlotte Foote who was very quick off the mark Cornwall Birds

And finally there were plenty of Netted Dog Whelks (Tritia sp.) in the rockpools. The two species are very hard to separate without looking at the shell opening, but I also found some egg sacs which were slightly wider than tall, making them T. reticulata rather than T. nitida

Went rockpooling this morning for the first time in ages, and it didn't disappoint! The highlights are too many to fit into one tweet, so I'll start with my favourites (and all new for me) - Solar-powered Sea Slug, Arctic Cowrie, Common Squat Lobster and Small-headed Clingfish

Some other cool rockpool finds from earlier - Long-clawed Spider Crab, Green Sea Urchin, Blue-rayed Limpet and Star Ascidian!

A brilliant trip to Hayle Estuary today with totals including 2300+ Golden plover, 350+ Dunlin, 14 Grey Plover, 750+ Lapwing, 2F Goosander, 5 Ringed plover, and this colour ringed Rock pipit that was ringed in Norway in 2021!

Photos by Charlotte Foote

Cornwall Birds British Trust for Ornithology in Cornwall

A beautiful morning for our Penryn Estuary walk today. We were treated to Little egrets, Oystercatcher, Cormorant, Greenshank, Curlew, Redshank, Kingfisher, Common sandpiper and much more.

Cornwall Birds Charlotte Foote

Thank you to all who came along to our ringing demo today. It was brilliant to show some of the conservation work undertaken on campus with a range of species inc. Redwing, Chiffchaff, Goldcrest and Blackcap.

All birds caught and handled under BTO licence for research purposes.

New cat paper!😺we applied stable isotope analysis to estimate contributions of wild and pet foods to diet of domestic cats.We also tested whether treatments aimed at reducing killing affect the relative importance of prey in cats' diet: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…
📸Vittoria Roatti

Interested in paleo related theorising? Come along to tomorrow's Permian talk to ask what would have happened if the Great Dying had never happened. Link will be posted on our Facebook page tomorrow at 4!

Join us for our Conservation quiz this Thursday!
Get your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecosoc-conse…

Make sure to submit photos of your favourite wildlife encounters to FX Womxn in STEM ‘s STEM Wildlife Photography contest!
Where our guest Dr Joanna Henley, will be joining us to judge the competition!
More information can be found below:

We here at EcoSoc are delighted to announce that we now have a discord for our members! We will be holding our first event on there on Wednesday the 17th with a screening of Prehistoric Park at 7pm!

Link to the discord: discord.gg/MhgXDUGZTD

Sea watch between Gyllyngvase and Swanpool today with Thomas resulted in 17+ Gannet, 10 Shags and 2 Great Northern Divers showing well.

Cornwall Birds BirdTrack Swanpool Beach EcoSoc

It's time to reveal the top worst photos from our bad photography competition! Thank you to everyone who sent us photos, we really enjoyed looking through them all. We've picked these photos from Carla Hill, Nick Plumb, Simon Taylor and Teeanna Cleary-Skelton as our favourites.

This week we're setting you another photography competition - this time we'd love to see your WORST wildlife photos! They can be taken on a camera or phone, in the UK or abroad. Message your entries to us, or email them to [email protected] by Friday 5th June.

For our final post of frIDay, here's a fantastic guide to the bats of the UK
bats.org.uk/about-bats/wha…

If you’re under 25, BTO needs your help! Please fill out their survey to help improve opportunities for young people... 🐦🦆🦅🦉🦢

Hey all! We interrupt your regularly scheduled FrIDay to remind you that tomorrow at 3pm we have a Lockdown Kahoot, hosted by Vice-President Humphrey. It will be hosted on our Youtube Channel, linked below:

youtube.com/channel/UCMKH0…

Hope to see you there!