Friday 14th February 2025

Friday 14th February 2025

Near Marazion: Booted Eagle ~ perched in large larch trees, viewed from A394 road bridge 1645-1710, when it flew to the back of the closer pines to roost. (M Golley & L Nicholson)

Lelant railway station: Ring-billed Gull, adult just out from the station platform, Caspian Gull 3w, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (ad & 2w), 2 Mediterranean Gull (2 adults, 1 1w), 575+ Lesser Black-backed Gull. (M Golley & L Nicholson)

Lelant, Dobbies GC: 4 Chiffchaff around pond. (S Grose)

Lelant Station: 5 Common Gull, 3 Mediterranean Gull, 189 Lesser Black-backed Gull. (S Grose)

Newlyn Harbour: 2 Great Northern Diver, 38 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Rock Pipit, 36 Turnstone, 2 Shag, 3 Cormorant. (S Grose)

Longrock Pool: 2 Mute Swan, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Little Grebe. (S Grose)

Copperhouse Creek: 1 Spoonbill, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Greenshank, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 26 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Kingfisher. (S Grose)

St Gothian Sands LNR: 31 Tufted Duck, 1f Shoveler, 3 Little Grebe,  1 Shelduck. (S Grose)

Boat Cove to Trenow: Yellow-browed Warbler, 2 Black-throated Diver, Purple Sandpiper with Turnstone, approx 15 Chiffchaff. (A Witheywood)

St. Andrews road pond: male Mandarin Duck, Barnacle Goose, 10 Teal, Long-tailed Tit. (J Brown)

Gannel Estuary: 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull, 20 Common Gull, 86 Great Black-backed Gull, 29 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 6 Wigeon, 40 Curlew. Also 1 Black Redstart on Trevean Way. (S Rowe)

Helston boating lake: 21 Tufted Duck, 14 Shoveler. (M Golley & L Nicholson)

Porthleven: Mediterranean Gull (adult), 5 Red-throated Diver, Shag, Guillemot, 25 Gannet, Grey Seal. (M Golley & L Nicholson)

Perranuthnoe: 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Red-throated Diver, 2 Raven, Stonechat, 55 Pied Wagtail, 20 Meadow Pipit, 15 Gannet. (M Golley & L Nicholson)

Sunny Corner: Avocet, 103 Black-tailed Godwit, 210 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper. (R Wilkins)

Boscawen Park/Sunny Corner, Truro: 2 Curlew, 34 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Oystercatcher. (A Lea)

 

Late Submission, 13/02, At Sea Trevose Head to St Agnes: 1 Great Skua, 8 Fulmar, c20 Gannet, Guillemots, Razorbills, Herring Gulls, 7 Red-throated Diver, C15 Kittiwake, & Great Black-backed Gull, Shags, Cormorants, Carrion Crows, 1 possibly 2  Humped-back Whale,  1 Harbour Porpoise, C60 Grey Seal, c20 Common Dolphin. (J Goodair)

 

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