Saturday 26th January 2019

Saturday 26th January 2019

Late news, 25/01, Goonhilly Downs: 1 Merlin. (D Beadle)

Pendower: Pacific Diver and Red-necked Grebe. (C Ellis, P Roseveare)

Portscatho: Adult Black Guillemot again plus 5 Slavonian Grebes. (C Ellis, P Roseveare) Also female Long-tailed Duck reported still

Newquay: Glossy Ibis late afternoon at Trenance boating lake. (S Rowe, P Ash)

Glossy Ibis – Steve Rowe

Glossy Ibis – Paul Ash

Lower Tamar Lake: Female Ring-necked Duck still and Willow Tit on the feeders. (T Phelps, L Langley)

Chapel Amble: Temminck’s Stint still behind the Maltsters Pub viewed from the double metal gates, also 3+ Water Pipit.

Coverack: 1 Pallas’s Warbler, 1 Siberian Chiffchaff, 1 Yellow-browed Warbler, all still present this afternoon. Also 1 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Eider, 1 Common Scoter, 1 Sparrowhawk and 1 Grey Heron. (D Eva, D Beadle, D Wright, S Bury)

Pallas’s Warbler – Dougy Wright

Pallas’s Warbler – Dougy Wright

St Austell sewage works: 1 Yellow-browed Warbler in the Pentewan valley trail car park again. (J Rance)

Drift Reservoir: 2 Black-necked Grebes visible from the car park. (M Ahmad)

Black-necked Grebes – Mashuq Ahmad

Wadebridge: 30+ Cattle Egrets Clapper Marsh, but flew off at:14:25. (A Langdon)

Sancreed: 3+ Cattle Egret, 28 Snipe, 5 Med Gull, 120 Redwing. (D Flumm)

Carne Creek: 4 Cattle Egret came to roost, 1 Common Sandpiper, 5 Redshank and 1 Greenshank. (A Witheywood)

Common Sandpiper – A Witheywood

Gannel Estuary: 1 ad argentatus Herring Gull, 600 Herring Gull, 55 Lesser Black-backed Gull. (S Rowe)

Newlyn: 1w female Eider in the harbour. (M Ahmad)

Eider – Mashuq Ahmad

Praa Sands: 2 Chough. (MJ Spicer)

Rinsey: 1 Peregrine (T), 2 Chough within a flock of Jackdaw, 1 Kestrel, 1 Bullfinch, 4 Shag, 5 Fulmar (J Evans)

Dobwalls: Male and female Blackcap in private garden, feeding on ivy berries. (C&J Duffy)

Hayle Estuary RSPB: Spoonbill still on Ryan’s Field.

Lizard Point: Balearic Shearwater past this morning.

Lizard: 1 Black Redstart.

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