chough

I’ve seen pilot whales, dolphins, seals, barn owls, kestrels, peregrines and choughs, met old Cornish fishermen and made new local friends.

Below me is a lush flower-filled valley, and above me are swirls of choughs.

“An Alpine chough...How can you see him?”

They keep the vegetation low in the winter when the sheep are brought down to lower levels, and they provide food for birds like choughs.

In the silence the call of the chough on the terrace could be distinctly heard right across the combe.