Tuesday 23rd July 2024

Tuesday 23rd July 2024

Pendeen: 1 2nd cal yr (non-breeding) Hobby and 1 Yellow Wagtail.  Offshore, 10 Cory’s Shearwater and 7 Common Scoter. (P Combridge)

St Ives Island (07:32 -08:42): 16 European Storm Petrel, 7 Balearic Shearwater, 1 Cory’s Shearwater (07:48), 63,000 Manx Shearwaters (20/second for first 35 minutes), 1 Sooty’s Shearwater, 13 Mediterranean Gull. (P Nason)

St Ives Island (07.30-09.30): Spectacular movement of Manx Shearwaters around 08.00h with birds often resting close offshore and peak counts off 700/min. 1 Balearic Shearwater, ca. 30 Mediterranean Gulls, 4 Whimbrel. (G Jones)

Porth: (06.00-08.00): 55,000 Manx Shearwater SSW. (S Gale)

Downderry: 290 Gannet east and 311 west, 0600-0745. Also west a Balearic Shearwater, 2 Manx Shearwater, 15 Mediterranean Gull and 6 Sandwich Tern.  (A Payne)

Caradon Hill: 4 Common Woodpigeon, 2 Common Magpie, c50 Eurasian Jackdaw, 25 Carrion Crow, 4 Coal Tit, 6 Barn Swallow, 2 Eurasian Wren, 2 Eurasian Blackbird, 5 European Robin, 12 European Stonechat, 1 Northern Wheatear, 1 Dunnock, 2 Pied Wagtail/White Wagtail, 1 Common Chaffinch, 5 Common Linnet, 1 European Goldfinch, 25 Yellowhammer. (TJ Hopper)

Prisk Cove, Rosemullion Head4 Ringed Plovers, 2 Whimbrel. (S A McCartney)

Truro, Sunny Corner: 1 Kingfisher back at its wintering site, 49 Curlew, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Roe Deer early evening. (T Wilson)

Par, beach pool: c.140 Black-headed Gull two ringed – TMLX white, 294C orange, 2 Mediterranean Gull one ringed 5A41 blue. (R Hampshire)

Godrevy Point: 1m Kestrel, 1f Stonechat, 3 (1ad 2juv) Rock Pipit, 1 juv Pied Wagtail, 10+ Linnet, 2 juv Blackbird, 2 Magpie, 13 Oystercatcher, 6 Shag. (10.15 – 11.45). (M Webb)

Liskeard, Moorswater:  c50 Common Swift feeding over the viaduct at 18.36 hrs.  (D Sharp)

Wenmouth Cross: Swifts still present at nesting hole. (J Thomas)

TJW