Monday 16th December 2024

Monday 16th December 2024

St Minver: Black Kite. (P Dracup)

Boscathnoe: Little Bunting in wild bird mix field at 1.45pm + Reed Bunting. (T Twiggs). Also Little Bunting and Yellow-browed Warbler still present. Also 2 Reed Bunting and male Goosander. (P St Pierre)

Newlyn Harbour: 1 Azorean Yellow-legged Gull (adult on fish dock roof this afternoon). (N R Rogers)

Truro: Black Redstart (f). (C Crewes)

Land’s End: 1 Chough. (M Yelland)

Par, Spit Beach: 9 Eider (4f.  4m. 1st yr m.), 12 Common Scoter, 7 Great Northern Diver, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Curlew,  1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher. (R Hampshire)

Porthcurnick: 49 Black-headed Gull, 2 Mediterranean Gull, 5 Herring Gull, 1 Buzzard, 1 Curlew, 1 Little Egret, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Wren. (C Taylor)

Truro, Sunny Corner: 1 Spotted Redshank, 3 Greenshank. (T Wilson)

Crowdy Reservoir: 1 Great Northern Diver, 1+ Goosander male, 300+ Lapwing over. (B Craven)

Lizard, St Keverne: 1 Song Thrush in pig field. (A Lea)

Lizard, Dean Quarry (no public access): 1 (female type) Black Redstart. (A Lea)

Millbrook: Pied Crow on and near Devon and Cornwall pub for ten minutes, around 1400 hrs, calling loudly, and then flew west. Also Coot on lake. (M Jordan)

Lower Tamar Lake: 3 Egyptian Goose, 4 Cormorant, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Willow Tit, 14 Goosander 7m 7f, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 1 Marsh Tit, 2 Robin  3 Long-tailed Tit, 7 Chaffinch. (R Mudge)

St Ives Island, Early am: 3 Red-throated Diver. 2 West, 1 East. Black-throated Diver offshore. (A Lobb)

Newlyn: No sight of Hume’s Warbler between 12 & 3pm. 1 (poss 2) Yellow-browed Warbler tho’ with at least 1 Firecrest, a Sibe Chiffchaff and a male Blackcap also. (A Lobb)

Hayle Estuary, late pm: 6 Goosander, 3 Grey Plover, 50+ Common Gull, 100+ Dunlin, 3 Greenshank, and a heard-only Whimbrel. (A Lobb)

Penzance, Chyandour: 2 Dipper (C.Beazley)

Penzance, Morrab Road: Song Thrush singing (C.Beazley)

Gerrans Bay: a group of 5 Blackthroated Divers, close in near Curgurrell, 2.30pm today. First ones I’ve seen this Autumn. Also 12 Great Northern Divers scattered across the bay, plus 1f Common Scoter. (D Hall)

 

Late submission, 15/12/24, Mevagissey Harbour: 2 Great Northern Diver just offshore, 2 Purple Sandpiper, 14 House Sparrow, 5 Rock Pipit. (S Grose)

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