Saturday 17th August 2019

Saturday 17th August 2019

Newlyn Harbour: 1 Eider on the slipway, 27 Turnstone, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 69 Great Black-backed Gull, 5 House Sparrow feeding on seaweed, 1 Compass Jellyfish. (S Grose)

Drift Reservoir (members only): 6 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 2 Garganey, 1 Teal, 3 Shoveler, 96 Canada Geese, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 26 Swift, 8 Chiffchaff. (D Flumm)

Canada Geese – Dave Flumm

Pendeen Watch: 4 Sooty Shearwater, 6 Balearic Shearwater, 5 Great Skua, 5 Storm Petrel, 22 Whimbrel, 4 Arctic Tern, 2 Chough and 4+ Bottlenose Dolphin 06:00-10:30. (L Proctor)

Penzance, Battery Rocks: 1 Knot, 21 Turnstone, 11 Ringed Plover. (S Grose)

East Pentire, Newquay: 22,000 Manx Shearwater, 3 Great Skua, 1 Arctic Skua, 22 Whimbrel between 07:30 and 09:30. (S Rowe) Also 2 Balearic Shearwater, 2 Storm Petrel, 1 Whimbrel late afternoon. (S Rowe)

Argal Reservoir: 4 Great Crested Grebe plus 1 chick about 3 weeks old, 7 Moorhen. (D Eva)

College Reservoir: 4 Great Crested Grebe plus 2 chicks about 1 week old, 1 still incubating nest, 1 Gadwall, 16 Coot plus 2 chicks about 1 week old. (D Eva)

Stithians Reservoir: 1 Green Sandpiper, 19 Curlew, 2 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher. (D Eva)

Lizard Point: 4 Balearic Shearwater and 3 Sooty Shearwater.

Penzance: 7 Mediterranean Gull on rocks opposite railway station. (S Grose)

Penzance, Battery Rocks: 14 Turnstone (12 moulting males), 2 Ringed Plover. (T Mills) Promenade: 6 Turnstone, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull. (T Mills)

Hayle Estuary RSPB: 1 juv Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Common Gull, 2 Knot, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Greenshank, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 juv Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Whimbrel. (J St Ledger, M Halliday) 39 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kingfisher at Ryan’s Field. (S Grose) 1 juv Common Tern this evening. (R Veal) 1 ringed Mediterranean Gull. (R Loader)

Yellow-legged Gull – Mark Halliday

Yellow-legged Gull – Mark Halliday

Mediterranean Gull – Rob Loader

Common Gull – John St Ledger

Knot – John St Ledger

Kingfisher – John St Ledger

Illogan: 1 Ring-necked Parakeet. In road named Langwedh, backing on to the cemetery. (J St Ledger)

Ring-necked Parakeet – John St Ledger

Hayle: 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker at Millpond. (S Grose)

Lizard Point (NT car park): 2 Whitethroat, 3 Greenfinch. (J Hawkey, K Dalziel)

Housel Bay: 2 Common Swift, 5 Stonechat (family), 2 Whitethroat & 6 House Martin still feeding young under the eaves of the Housel Bay Hotel. (J Hawkey, K Dalziel)

Windmill Farm: 1 Hobby successfully catching dragonfly. (J Hawkey, K Dalziel)

Penwithick: 9 House Sparrow, 3 Blue Tit, 6 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 1 Robin, 2 Jay. (K Bowers)

Bullfinch – Kevin Bowers

Bullfinch – Kevin Bowers

Chaffinch – Kevin Bowers

Chaffinch – Kevin Bowers

Chaffinch – Kevin Bowers

Cape Cornwall: 1 Storm Petrel and 1 Great Skua. First light to 08:45. (J O’Sullivan)

Trebarwith Strand, nr Tintagel: 500+ Manx Shearwater, 100+ Gannet, 10+ Shag (all 3 species in area of Gull Rock), 5 Cormorant, 4 Fulmar. (A Parker)

Treligga Cliff, nr Tintagel: 1 Wheatear, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel. (A Parker)

Tresemple Pool, Truro: 74 Redshank, 17 Greenshank, 39 Curlew, 6 Whimbrel, 9 Dunlin, 1 Kingfisher, 5 Grey Heron, 7 Little Egret and c40 House Martin over the car park at high tide this evening. (P Kemp)

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