Saturday 18th April 2020

Saturday 18th April 2020

Birding in Lockdown: Links to Garden Lockdown Listing League and our Birding Ideas Page, helping to make the most of extra time as a result of the lockdown.

Late news, 17/4, St Ives Island: 2cy Iceland Gull, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Wheatear, 1 Guillemot, 2 Shelduck flew east. (G Jones)

St Just: Lapland Bunting (adult male in breeding plumage), 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 White Wagtail, 6 Wheatear. (P Clarke)

Newlyn: 2cy Glaucous still. (M Ahmad) Also 2cy Iceland Gull. (M Eliott)

Glaucous Gull – M Ahmad

Iceland Gull – M Ahmad

Little Tern – M Ahmad

Penzance: 1 Little Tern and 52+ Sandwich Tern on Larrigan Rocks. (M Ahmad) Also 1 Great Skua high over. (M Elliott)

Nanquidno: 1 Ring Ouzel, 5 Swallow. (C Moore)

Mousehole: 2cy Glaucous Gull (same as Newlyn). (M Elliott)

Skewjack: 1 Cuckoo. (M Wallace)

Marazion Marsh: 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Swift, 30 Sand Martin. Also 12 Sandwich Tern, 6 Common Tern, 30 Whimbrel on/from the beach. (S Rogers)

Maer Lake: 7 Dunlin, 6 Black tailed Godwit, 2 Lesser black Backed Gull, 14 Herring Gull, 3 Moorhen, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Sedge Warbler, 9 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow. (H Kendall)

Tresillian: 3 Whimbrel. (M Jones)

Porthleven: 1 Swift, 1 Tree Pipit, 3 Whimbrel over. (I Maclean)

St Erth: 1 Snipe, 2 Stock Dove, 2 House Martin, c15 Sand Martin, 1 Siskin, 1 Little Grebe. (R Veal)

St Erth Praze: 1 Whitethroat, 4 Swallow, 2 Red-Legged Partridge in seedling field opposite road to Townshend (J Evans)

Townshend: 1 Yellowhammer heard singing from treetops on Godolphin side of crossroads. (J Evans)

Falmouth, Gyllyngvase Beach: 1 Great Northern Diver, 30 Whimbrel in two groups of 12 & 18 flying over towards St Anthony Headland, 1 pair Eider, 15 Sandwich Tern, 1 Razorbill, 1 Kestrel (female, over) (J St Ledger)

Whimbrel, John St Ledger

Trevear cove & river valley: 10+ Blackcaps (7m, 3+f), 1 Whitethroat, 1 Cuckoo, 4 Willow Warblers, 3 Chiffchaffs, 1 Canada Goose, 1 Jay, 1pr Swallows, 2 Song Thrush, 1pr Long-tailed Tit, Linnets with nesting material, Green Woodpecker. (J Hawkey)

Rushy Green – Kelsey’s: Many Swallow, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Sedge Warbler seen (but many heard), 3 Whimbrel, Wheatear, pr Bullfinch, Gannets our to sea. (P Stephenson)

North Hill, Launceston: 4 Blackbird, 2 Blackcap, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Carrion Crow, 3f Chaffinch, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Coal Tit, 3 Goldfinch, 1f Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Great Tit, 2 Jackdaw, 3 Mistle Thrush, 1 Pheasant, 1 Raven, 6 Siskin, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Woodpigeon, 1 Wren. (J Bosefield)

Downderry: Early this morning 2 Sandwich Terns, 2 Red-throated Divers, 8 Common Scoters and a Whimbrel (5 yesterday). (A Payne)

Newquay, Trevemper / Trerice: 4 Song Thrush, 7 Whimbrel over, 2 Reed Warbler,15 Chiffchaff, 11 swallow, 2 House Martin,3 Whitethroat, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Green Woodpecker,11 Greenfinch, 1 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail,9 Linnet, 3 Buzzard,17 Blackcap, 3 Raven over, 21 Wren, 63 Rook, 7 Carrion Crow, 3 Coal Tit, 5 Long tailed Tit, 1 Sparrowhawk, 43 House Sparrow, 19 Dunnock, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker. (S Grose)

Chykembro Common: Cuckoo, 2 Grasshopper Warbler, Yellowhammer, 2 pr Stonechat, 3 Wheatear. (P St Pierre)

Buttermilk Hill: one or two groups of 5 Ring Ouzels (G Jones) 8, Ring Ouzels, 1, Swallow, 15, Linnets, 12, Meadow Pipits, 5 Stonechats. (V Stratton)

Coverack area: 1 Ring Ouzel, 3 Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Blackcap and 13 Sandwich Tern (P. Bedford) 1 Sedge Warbler at Trevothan and 3+ Sandwich Tern and 1 Guillemot
in the bay (D Beadle)

Loe bar, Porthleven: 5 Red-throated Diver, 2 Great Northern Diver and 2 Raven. (A Witheywood)

Freathy: 1 Grasshopper Warbler reeling, 4 Whitethroat and 1 Willow Warbler singing. Diver sp. on sea. Also 8 Linnet, Stonechat, Raven, Shag and c200 Herring Gull. All along  1 mile of coastpath west from Freathy this morning. (M Jordan)

Great Western: 1 Kestrel. (E Henderson)

Towan Headland: 2 Wheatear, 2 Skylark, 10 Gannets,3 Rock pipits. (E Henderson)

Little Petherick: Cuckoo heard. (M Ellis)