Friday 16th August 2024

Friday 16th August 2024

St Michael’s Mount: 1 Melodious Warbler. (M Broadbent)

Lower Kenneggy, 13:15-13:45: Honey Buzzard circling. (M Hutchens)

St Anthony Head, Roseland: 3 Raven, 1 Kestrel, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Black-headed Gull, 10 Herring Gull, 12 Gannet (offshore), 2 Pied Wagtail (juv), 6 Shag, 1 Wren. (C Taylor)

Garden near Tregonning Hill: 2 juv. Robin, 2 juv. Great Tit, 3 juv. Blue Tit, 2 juv. Coal Tit, 1 juv. Long-tailed Tit, 1 juv. Greenfinch, 3 juv. Goldfinch, 1 juv. Chaffinch, 2 juv. Bullfinch, 1 juv. Wren, 1 juv. Song Thrush, 3 juv. Blackbird in June, followed by 4 more in early August, 2 juv. Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 juv. Green Woodpecker. (W Smith)

Devoran: 99 Curlew, 109 Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 28 Oystercatcher, 8 Whimbrel, 1 Dunlin, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Teal, 1 Greenshank. (D Eva)

Trenow Cove, Perranuthnoe: 45 Whimbrel, 4 Little Egret, 3 Oystercatcher, 1 Black Headed Gull. (J Savage)

Falmouth Bay, 5 miles off: 10 Cory’s Shearwater, 3 Sooty Shearwater, 3 Balearic Shearwater, 2 Great Shearwater, 250 Manx Shearwater, 1 European Storm Petrel, 1 Minke Whale, 8 Porpoise, Hundreds of Bluefin Tuna in multiple feeding frenzies. (R Kirkwood)

Rinsey Cove to Porthleven: 6 Chough, 24+ Gannet, 2 Raven, 1+ Fulmar, 10 Stonechat, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 20 Linnet, 13 Cormorant, 6 Common Blue (Butterfly), 4 Meadow Brown (butterfly). (P K & T F Bray)

Spit beach, Par: 1 Great Northern Diver in bay, 14 Ring Plover, 5 Turnstone one still part summer plumage below golf course, 30 plus Cormorant. (M Lammas R Nappin)

Polzeath/Lundy Bay: 9 Chough, no rings. (S Grose)

 

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