Spring at Marazion

The RSPB Aylesbeare warden, Toby Taylor, very kindly offered out the services of myself and Tia to RPSB Cornwall reserves.  As a result we’ve been removing willow stumps at a place called Marazion for the last couple of days.  The weather has been glorious, the reserve is beautiful, and we’ve been eating lunch on the beach looking out at St Michaels Mount.  If Dave, the warden down there, offered residential placements I’d be jolly well signing up.

What’s more, whilst there, I saw my first bittern, flying for a good few hundred metres across the marshes this morning, fantastic!  No, more than fantastic.  Both myself and Tia became very excited and probably embarrassed poor Dave by gushing thank yous to him, when he isn’t, after all, able to control what the birds get up to.  There are also Cetti’s warblers on the marshes, and chiff chaffs that hang around all year round.  With chiff chaffs joining in the plentiful bird song there was a proper feel of spring in the air, probably something that part of the world feels before most places in the country.  Oh, and it’s hard to describe how loud the Cetti’s are – they manage to make their call sound like it’s being produced in an amphitheatre.  Incredible.