As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Monday 1 October 2012

Wanted: One tenant for Britain’s most southerly farm (and they must be able to look after breeding birds and twitchers)

Britain’s most southerly farm is up for rent to a tenant who can look after a rare pair of breeding birds – and accommodate thousands of ‘twitchers’.

The idyllic Tregullas Farm sits on the tip of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

It has a five bedroom farmhouse, private garden, and a host of farm outbuildings including a former tea room.
But the farm is also home to the only pair of breeding choughs in Cornwall.

The National Trust now wants a new tenant for the 238-acre site – but stresses the incumbents must be willing to accommodate birdwatchers.

Every year thousands of of ‘twitchers’ come to see the distinctive red-legged black crows.

Birdwatchers have access to the land via footpaths and the trust says the farm tenant must make the choughs’ well-being a ‘priority’
Continued: http://swns.com/news/wanted-one-tenant-for-britains-most-southerly-farm-and-they-must-be-able-to-look-after-breeding-birds-and-twitchers/

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