Monday 29th April 2019

Monday 29th April 2019

Late News, 28/04, Bodmin Moor: Cuckoos heard at Witheybrook and Bearah Tor, Bodmin Moor (P Crispin)

Lelant: 40 Whimbrel West Cornwall Golf Course. (S Turner)

Marazion Marsh RSPB: Glossy Ibis still, also 1 Gadwall, 4+ Teal, 12 Canada Geese plus 5 goslings. (DK Parker, R Wilkins) Black-tailed Godwit (sum plum) Cetti’s warbler, Greenfinch (A Witheywood)

Marazion: 1 sum plum Bar-tailed Godwit on the beach also 4+ Great Northern Diver, 5 imm male Eider and 3 Sandwich Tern offshore. (DK Parker, R Wilkins, P St Pierre)

Maer Lake, Bude: 35 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Shelduck, c. 15 Teal. (I & H Kendall)

Godolphin Hill: 1 Cuckoo and 1 reeling Grasshopper Warbler (P Bedford)

Padstow: c 20 Black-tailed Godwits on the Camel Estuary near Padstow this morning. (E Smart)

Portscatho: 2 Great Northern Diver (in summer plumage), 2 Guillemot, 14 Whimbrel, 2 Whitethroat.  (J St Ledger)

Pendower: 8 Great Northern Diver, 3 Razorbill, 4 Shelduck, 1 Skylark (singing). (J St Ledger)

Mounts Bay: kayak trip round Mount’s Bay from Penzance today, as far as Lamorna; 6 Puffin, 1500+ Manx Shearwater in Rafts, 100+ Guillemots, 10+ Razorbills, 1 Arctic Skua (dark phase adult), 4 Sandwich Tern, 6 Whimbrel, (R Kirkwood)

St Enodoc golf club: 1 Yellowhammer. (S Grose)

Crousa Downs, Coverack: 1 Cuckoo (D Beadle)

Walmsley Sanctuary: 2 Tufted Duck m+f, 2 Gadwall m+f, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit , 1 Coot, 1 Little Grebe, 3 Shelduck, 1 Jay, 6 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Hare. (S Grose)

Camel Estuary: 72 Shelduck, 85 Whimbrel , 1 Bar-tailed Godwit (Summer Plumage), 2 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper (B Bosisto L Payne)