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Volunteer Seashore Rangers needed!
Volunteer Seashore Rangers wanted Are you passionate about Cornwall’s Marine Life? Would you love to share your enthusiasm with the general public? Would you like to be given a chance to develop your skills and experience to help your career in marine conservation? If you have answered YES please get in touch! Click on link &hellip Continue reading
VOLUNTEER JOB VACANCY
Are you passionate about Cornwall’s Marine Life? Would you love to share your enthusiasm with the general public and lead and motivate a team of volunteers? Would you like to be given a chance to develop your skills and experience to help your career in Marine conservation? If you have answered YES please get in &hellip Continue reading
Cetacean, shark and seal watch at St Agnes Head
A total of 30 people joined St Agnes Marine Conservation Group Volunteers at St Agnes Head to look for dolphins, porpoises, sharks and seals on Saturday 19 May, a beautiful clear sunny day with a calm sea, perfect conditions for spotting wildlife! As well as enjoying a fantastic view along the North Cornish coast we &hellip Continue reading
Starfish and Seabirds say “cheese” for the camera at St Agnes VMCA
On Saturday 5th May St Agnes Voluntary Marine Conservation Area group teamed up with the village Photographic Club for a session of photography at Trevaunance Cove. The sunny day provided a great opportunity to explore the beach and rocky shore before heading up onto the cliff tops. There was plenty of interest to photograph – &hellip Continue reading
Beach Clean
Another successful beach clean at Porthtowan Beach today, another 23 bags of rubbish collected!! 25 volunteers arrived and we were blessed with a mild day with no wind. Amongst the rubbish we found whelk egg cases, goose barnicles and egg cases from sharks or rays. We were also joined by the team from The Sea Chair &hellip Continue reading
Events this week!
After the conference we’re all really looking forward to the volunteer meeting in the Driftwood this Thursday – please come along if you can – 6pm start in the back room – new people welcome! Then we have a talk from Dr Nick Tregenza about his work developing pingers for fishing nets aiming to reduce &hellip Continue reading
Spring is coming
Inspired by the conference went out on Sunday and the seabirds are getting ready for breeding whilst we are still in winter mode. Shags are in full breeding plumage-glossy black/green with prominent tufts-and nest building, fulmars all paired up on their ledges and displaying to each other and many razorbills, both on ledges and in &hellip Continue reading
Guillemots and (no) cod
Lovely sea conditions on Saturday allowed us a trip in the boat to see if we could find any of the cod that have been reported off the north coast-something of a new happening over the last couple of years and perhaps another indication of changes in our environment. As a true conservationist (and poor &hellip Continue reading
January seabird and dolphin activity
Last weekend was quite stormy and was ideal for watching the fulmars perform their spectacular aerobatic displays around Trevaunance Point. They are back around the cliffs at full strength now and on windy days should be worth a walk out to the point to watch. Surprisingly the first razorbills were also buzzing to and fro &hellip Continue reading
North Coast Diving – what’s out there?
Divers in the ‘70s & ‘80s, with a pocket full of pebbles, only needed to experience a couple of near misses in surf, and interesting tides, to confirm that the North Coast was not easy diving. Many of us were told there was nothing to see – and as a result focused on the gentler &hellip Continue reading