BIRD PARADISE AT RSPB HAYLE ESTUARY NATURE RESERVE
Part of a sponsored bird watch for the St Ives Archive led by world-renowned ornithologist Viv Stratton. Here we see Ryan's Field and Lelant Water on either side of the Hayle causeway.
Many more videos of St Ives and Cornwall here
Winter Birds at Hayle Estuary Cornwall with Jeff Goodman Wildlife Video Course
These wonderful birds were filmed on the mud flats on the Hayle Estuary in Cornwall as part of a wildlife video and editing course with Jeff Goodman.
If you would like to know more about our short weekend or full five day courses please contact Jeff through jeffgoodman.co.uk
Spoonbill Birds at RSPB Hayle Estuary Nature Reserve - 2 Spoonbills
Spoonbill Birds at RSPB Hayle Estuary Nature Reserve - 2 Spoonbills
Filmed on 31st October 2015
Video Produced by Paul Dinning - Wildlife in Cornwall
Spoonbill Birds on Hayle Estuary in Cornwall
Spoonbill Birds on Hayle Estuary in Cornwall
Filmed on 30th October 2012 at Hayle Estuary, Cornwall
Video Produced by Paul Dinning - Wildlife in Cornwall
Curlew - Hayle Estuary Bird Watching
Curlew - Hayle Estuary Bird Watching -
The curlew is the largest European wading bird, instantly recognisable on winter estuaries or summer moors with its long down-curved bill, brown upperparts and long legs. There have been worrying breeding declines in many areas largely due to loss of habitat through agricultural intensification. It is included on the Amber List as a bird with important breeding and wintering populations in the UK.
WHERE TO SEE THEM
Around the whole UK coastline with the largest concentrations of found at Morecambe Bay, the Solway Firth, the Wash, and the Dee, Severn, Humber and Thames estuaries. Greatest breeding numbers are found in N Wales, the Pennines, the southern uplands and E Highlands of Scotland and the Northern Isles.
WHEN TO SEE THEM
All year round. Look in breeding habitat from April to July. Coastal numbers build up from July and reach a peak in January and February.
WHAT THEY EAT
Worms, shellfish and shrimps.
Filmed on 20th October 2009
Video Produced by Paul Dinning - Wildlife in Cornwall
The curlew is the largest European wading bird, instantly recognisable on winter estuaries or summer moors with its long down-curved bill, brown upperparts and long legs. There have been worrying breeding declines in many areas largely due to loss of habitat through agricultural intensification. It is included on the Amber List as a bird with important breeding and wintering populations in the UK.
Curlews are found around the whole UK coastline with the largest concentrations of found at Morecambe Bay, the Solway Firth, the Wash, and the Dee, Severn, Humber and Thames estuaries. Greatest breeding numbers are found in N Wales, the Pennines, the southern uplands and E Highlands of Scotland and the Northern Isles.
Black Swan Bird on Copperhouse Creek, Hayle Estuary in Cornwall
Black Swan Bird on Copperhouse Creek, Hayle Estuary in Cornwall
Filmed on 7th March 2013 at Hayle, Cornwall
Video Produced by Wildlife in Cornwall
Cornwall 2015 The coast at Hayle
British Waders
This DVD has been specially filmed as an identification guide to British waders.
Exe Estuary Nature Reserve, Exmouth, South Devon
The Exe Estuary is famous for its bird life including avocets, black-tailed godwits, bar-tailed godwits and brent geese. The RSPB have reserves and a visitor centre here.
Snipe at Hayle Estuary
Snipe at Hayle Estuary
Filmed on 27th November 2009
Video Produced by Paul Dinning
Snipe are medium sized, skulking wading birds with short legs and long straight bills. Both sexes are mottled brown above, with paler buff stripes on the back, dark streaks on the chest and pale under parts. They are widespread as a breeding species in the UK, with particularly high densities on northern uplands but lower numbers in southern lowlands (especially south west England). In winter, birds from northern Europe join resident birds. The UK population of snipe has undergone moderate declines overall in the past twenty-five years, with particularly steep declines in lowland wet grassland, making it an Amber List species.
Black-winged Stilt at Hayle Estuary - Wildlife in Cornwall
Black-winged Stilt at Hayle Estuary - Wildlife in Cornwall
Filmed at Hayle Estuary on 29th September 2013
Video Produced by Paul Dinning
Knots Spectacular - Thousands Flocking at Snettisham RSPB reserve, UK
Thousands of Knots in a stunning aerial ballet giving dramatic flashes of colour change in the early morning sun. For a BBC article and video visit:
SpringVlog Episode 6 | RSPB Minsmere
This is the sixth instalment of our week-long series of daily vlogs from Minsmere RSPB reserve in Suffolk! SpringVlog is here!
The BBC are broadcasting Spingwatch from just a few hundred yards away, but we thought we'd bring you our version, perhaps revealing a different side to the reserve.
Presented by Branwen Munn, Elaine Thompson, Suzanne Munn and Winston Munn.
All the footage in this vlog was filmed by Branwen :)
Music by Branwen Munn.
Birdwatching in England
Birdwatching in England DVD Trailer
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Wild Out West - 600 mile roundtrip to Cornwall
Do you ever just think, I need more adventure in my life? Well, drop what you're doing and let's go on a road trip!
Join Simon on this 3-day jaunt down to the beautiful west country. From the rich birdlife on the Hayle Estuary to the bustling harbour of Penzance, join us on this fabulous Cornish adventure.
Places visited include:
The Eagle House Hotel - Launceston
WWPC - Lifton
RSPB Caer Bran
RSPB Hayle Estuary
St Michael’s Mount
Penzance Habour -
Gwithian Beach
Big thanks to:
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Viking Peregrine ED Binoculars -
Andrew McCarthy -
UK Nature and Wildlife Photography.South Devon Part 3. The Yealm Estuary.
I am an Amateur Nature and Wildlife photographer and vlogger based in South Staffordshire.
In the third episode from South Devon I take a walk down to a local estuary, timed just right for low tide and spend a couple of wonderful hours watching the birds and avoiding the shotguns!!
I must apologise for the shaky video, trying to improve that and for the voice sync, there appears to be something happening during the export from iMovie.
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Birds of the Exe estuary
Birds filmed during a weekend visiting nature reserves near the mouth of the river Exe in February 2012.
Sequences from this video have already featured in my previous five postings.
Flamingos @ Birds of Paradise Hayle Cornwall
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Birds at Ham Wall Nature Reserve, Somerset - Spring 2019
A day out birding at the RSPB's Ham Wall Nature Reserve, near Glastonbury in Somerset. This video features many of the birds I saw including Marsh Harriers, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Great White Egrets and Lapwings.
As you would expect in spring, birds were singing loudly, performing courtship displays and building nests. The video opens with the sound of a Bittern booming and elsewhere you can hear the songs of Cuckoos, Reed Warblers and Wrens, among many others.
In some shots you can see a hill with a tower on the top. This is Glastonbury Tor, topped by St Michael's Tower which is all that's left of the 14th-century church of St Michael.