Saturday 25th January 2014

Saturday 25th January 2014

Trenow Cove: 2 Long-tailed Duck, 9 Red-throated Diver, 3 Black-throated Diver, 1 Razorbill and 1 Sparrowhawk. (MJ & JPR Spicer)
Chyandour, Penzance: 1m Eider. (MJ & JPR Spicer)
Battery Rocks, Penzance: 3 Purple sandpiper. (T & M Hasdell)
Lizard Point: 1 1w Glaucous Gull and 1 1w Iceland Gull at Southerly Point. Also 1 Great Northern Diver and 3 Black-throated Diver. (M Grantham)
St Gothian Sands LNR: 1 Glaucous Gull with Herring and Great Black-back flock plus 24 Pochard. (D Jenkins)
Marazion Marsh RSPB: 2 Bittern, 6 Mute Swan, 3 Canada Geese, 28 Mallard, 56 Teal, 1 Little Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Stonechat, 6 Long-tailed Tit,, 1 Chiffchaff and 2 Cetti’s Warbler. (T & M Hasdell, DK Parker)
Marazion: 2 Common Scoter offshore. (DK Parker)
Tregiffian: 2 Snow Bunting. (P & H Taylor)
Colliford Lake: 1 Great Northern Diver. (P Crispin)
St Ives: 2 Balearic Shearwater, 1 Sooty Shearwater, 1 1w Glaucous Gull, 2 Iceland Gull (ad, 1w), 5 Great Northern Diver, 2 Red throated Diver, 1 Black throated Diver, 3 Great Skua, 8 Purple Sandpiper, 25 Mediterranean Gull, 285 auks (75% Razorbill 25% Guillemot), 4 Bottlenose Dolphin, 1 Harbour Porpoise, 2 Grey Seal plus a single feeding event of 45 Herring and 5 Greater Black-backed Gull was recorded. (A Colenutt, R Wynn, B Withey & S Maycock – photos)

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Mousehole: 16 Turnstone, 1 Redshank and 1 Harbour Porpoise. (DS Flumm)
Towan Head: 5 Red-throarted Diver flew west, 1 Balearic Shearwater, 2 Purple Sandpiper, 2 Bonxie west mid afternoon plus1 Great Northern Diver off Newquay Harbour. (S Rowe)
Porth Reservoir: 13 Canada Goose, 80 Mallard, 4 Tufted Duck, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Little Grebe and 4 Coot. (S Rowe)
Gannel Estuary: 210 Lapwing, 104 Wigeon, 140 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Med Gull and 700 Herring Gull. (S Rowe)
Dozmary Pool: 1m Lesser Scaup.
Copperhouse Creek: 1 Water Pipit.
Par Beach: 1 1w m Scaup.
MJS