Porthoustock: (10:00 – 13:30) 21 Arctic Skua, 5 Great Skua, 1 Long-tailed Skua, 1 Pomarine Skua, 2 Black Tern, 3 Great Shearwater, 53 Balearic Shearwater, 4 Sooty Shearwater. (J Jones, S Wood)
Porthgwarra: 1 Leach’s Petrel, 5 Arctic Skua, 1 Great Skua and 30+ Balearic Shearwater in difficult conditions. (per R Irvine)
Pendennis Point: 6 Sabine’s Gull past (1 at 10:14 and 5 at 10:20); also Sooty Shearwater. (Birdguides)
Pendeen: 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Cattle Egret, 2 Little Egret and 1 Grey Heron. (P Combridge)
Long Rock Pool: 1 Cattle Egret this morning. (P St Pierre)
Hayle Estuary: 1 Black Tern and 3 Sandwich Tern from the causeway this afternoon. (G Lawlor) In addition (16:00-17:00), 1 Spoonbill, 2 Greenshank, 4 Mediterranean Gull, 14 Redshank, 7 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin and 13 Curlew on the main estuary. 9 Sanderling on Carnsew Pool early morning. (B Burgess, R Nelson)
Stithians Lake: 1 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Shoveler, 12 Teal, 20 Cormorant, 12 Little Grebe, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Curlew. Also 1 Kingfisher at Golden Lion Hide. (M Saunders, J St Ledger, A Holmes)
Rosemullion Head: Flying south, 11:30-15:30. 5 Fulmar, 60 Manx Shearwater, 110 Gannet, 160 Kittiwake (61% imm.), 1 Guillemot, 24 Arctic Skua, 1 Great Skua and 5 ‘Commic’ Tern. (P McCartney)
St Ives Island: 1 Wheatear sp. (J Evans)
Carnon Downs: 1 Sandwich Tern over and being chased by crows at 17:45. (L Cox)
Gorran Haven: 17 Cory’s Shearwater, 1 Great Shearwater, 7 Balearic Shearwater, 2 Pomarine Skua and 1 Grey Phalarope past Maenease Point. (Birdguides)
Trevose Head: 1 Great White Egret feeding in fields east of upper car park, below light house. (T Codlin)
Wadebridge: 1 Osprey over. Also, 1 Great White Egret at Pendavey Bridge this evening. (B Oliphant)
Downderry: (07:15-08:25) 6 Common Scoter, 60+ Gannet, a Whimbrel, a Kestrel and 2 Kittiwake. (A Payne)
Late submission, 28/09, Land’s End: 17 Whooper Swan over at 16:45. (per P Harrison)
Late submission, 28/09, Gurnards Head: 10 Whooper Swan over. (B Armstrong)
Late submission, 28/09, Newquay: 1 Glossy Ibis over the Gannel Estuary at 15:25. (K Cowieson) Also, 1f Tawny Owl heard calling at 23:30. (A Quincey)
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