Thursday 22nd December 2016

Thursday 22nd December 2016

Mousehole: Eastern Black Redstart still present below Rock Pool café, 5 Rock Pipit. (R Veal). Also juvenile Glaucous Gull.

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Rock Pipit, Reuben Veal

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Eastern Black Redstart,  Reuben Veal

Hayle Estuary: Green-winged Teal (1w drake) still present by the B3301 causeway. 

St. Ives: 2 Great Northern Diver from the Island. (Sennen Cove Birdwatching)

Pendower Beach: 2 Red-necked Grebe, 4 Slavonian Grebe, 6 Great Northern Diver, 4 Black-throated Diver, 18 Common Scoter, 1 Chough. (S Rowe)

Rock: 3 Mistle Thrush in helipad field. (S Grose)

Newquay, Towan Head: 1 Great Northern Diver in bay off lifeboat slipway. (M Lammas)

Newquay, Gannel Estuary: 6 Cattle Egret roosted in Penpol creek. (M Lammas)

Camel Estuary: 1 Merlin hunting over Treraven Meadows at 08:15. (D Julian)

Liskeard: 1 Greenshank flew over southwest. (D Julian)

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