Note: Windmill Farm Nature Reserve. Please note that the Scrape Hide at Windmill Farm will be closed on Wednesday 5th February 2025. This is in order for a new roof to be installed on the hide.
Marazion: Booted Eagle still. Reported 09:16 and again at 13:46. Also Marsh Harrier. (B Dawson et al)
Newlyn/Roskilly: 1 Pacific Diver still. (A Lobb)
Mousehole 3-4pm: Pacific Diver present with several Great Northern Diver and 1 Black-throated Diver. 1 Sooty Shearwater circled offshore for several minutes before landing on the sea not far from large buoy. (A Lobb)
Falmouth Bay from St Mawes Ferry: 11 Kittiwake, 2 Black-headed Gull, 1 Guillemot, 3 Great Black-backed Gull, 7 Herring Gull, 3 Great Northern Diver, 5 Shag, 4 Gannet. (C Taylor)
Porthcurnick: 1 Black-necked Grebe still, 19 Turnstone, >50 Black-headed Gull. (C Taylor)
Polbathic Creek: 7 Snipe. (A Blonden)
Watergate Bay: 3 Red-throated Diver (D Eva)
St Ives: 1 x Male Kestrel. (M Hawkins)
Restronguet Weir: Black necked Grebe still, plus 2 Red breasted Merganser and 6 Great Northern Diver. (T Pinfield)
Walmsley Sanctuary: 2 Gadwall, 4 Little Grebe, 14 Wigeon, 13 Teal, 2 Snipe, 1 Spoonbill, 1 Buzzard, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Tufted Duck, 12 Curlew. (P Howrihane)
Torpoint Sewage Works: 15+ Chiffchaff, 1 Siberian Chiffchaff, 2 Yellow-browed Warbler (elusive), 3 Firecrest, 10+ Goldcrest. (K Pellow)
Torpoint, St Johns Lake: 12 Brent Goose (4 pale-bellied), 1 Great Northern Diver, 8 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Common Scoter, 15 Avocet. (K Pellow)
Drift Reservoir: 3 (2ad 1juv) Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Moorhen, 2 Coot, 1 Snipe, 2juv Cormorant, 100+ flock Great Black-backed and Herring Gull, 4 (2m 2f) Chaffinch, 1 Robin 10.15 – 11.45. (M Webb)
Portscatho to Porthcurnick Beach: 1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Slavonian Grebe, 4 Black-throated Diver, 7 Great Northern Diver, 2 Red-throated Diver, 1 pr Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Scoter (male), 65 Dunlin, 2 Grey Plover, 1 Kestrel. (J St Ledger)
Hayle Estuary (from causeway). 1 Black-headed Gull with Lithuanian metal ring HA59 (reads: HA59. //D(O)L MUS. LITHUA- presumed followed by ‘NIA’). (K Pritchard)
St. Blazey LNR: 1 Water Rail. (R Hampshire)
Camel Trail (Wadebridge/Treraven): 4 Barnacle Goose, 7 Greylag Goose, 4 Goldcrest, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Shelduck, Snipe, Canada Goose, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Goldfinch, Lapwing, Little Egret. (L Colliver)
Stithians: Long Tail Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker m&f, Jackdaw, Chiffchaff, Reed Bunting m&f, Chaffinch, Dunnock, many Blue Tit and Great Tits. (R Griffiths)
Hayle Estuary B3301 Causeway: 258 Dunlin, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Redshank 2 Curlew, 5 Lapwing, 30+ Teal. (M Webb)
Ryan’s Field: 1 Little Grebe on side pool, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 20+ Redshank, 5 Dunlin, 43 Lapwing, 34 Teal, 2 Shelduck, 1 Grey Heron 14.30 – 15.35. (M Webb)
Late Submission, 02/02/25, Wacker: 3 Spoonbill, 6 Avocet. (A Payne)
Late Submission, 01/02/25, Hayle Causeway: 1 Caspian Gull, 1 Caspian x Herring Gull (presumed – streaking on head). (K Pritchard)
Late Submission, 01/02/25, Mousehole St Clement’s Isle: 1 Caspian Gull. (K Pritchard)
Late Submission, 02/02/25, Hayle Causeway: 1 Yellow Legged Gull. (M Elliott & K Pritchard)
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