All Red Kite records published today are believed to be migrants. 

Note: RSPB Ryan’s Field Car Park is closed for next 3 days but still accessible from path from causeway

Marazion: Savi’s Warbler still singing and showing by railway bridge at 7:30 this morning, Black Kite over marshes with 1 Red Kite at 8:00, 3 Whimbrel on the beach. (A Davey)

Pendeen: Black Kite flew east at about 0900. (P Combridge)

Polgigga: 239 Red Kite, 1 Black Kite 1pm-3pm. (M. Wallace, S. Rogers)

Nanquidno Down: 1 Stone Curlew, 07:30 in arable field by public footpath SE of Gurland Farm. (N Unwin)

Falmouth: 8 Swift in group over Trescobeas area. (J St Ledger)

Stithians: 2 singing Garden Warblers, Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Cuckoo, 4 Great Crested Grebe on reservoir. (T. Pinfield), Stithians Lake: 12+ calling Whitethroat, 4 calling Blackcap, numbers of Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff & Dunnock. (A Lea), 1 Red Kite over. (A Mcleod), Southern causeway to dam: 3 Cuckoo, 1 Red Kite, multiple Common Whitethroat and Sedge and Willow Warblers, 2 Reed Bunting, Chiffchaffs heard, 3 Grasshopper Warbler. (S Ford), Stithians Reservoir Feeder Hide: 2 Robin, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Magpie, 1 Moorhen and chick, 3 Canada Goose 14.00 – 14.25. (M Webb)

Hayle, Ryan’s Field: 2 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 14 Dunlin, 5 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Ringed Plover, 1 Greenshank, 1 Red Kite (over, which flushed all of the waders over to the estuary). Also numbers of Orange-tip Butterfly. (J St Ledger), 2 Red Kites at 14:30. (W Chegwidden), 16 Red Kites. (P Rutter)

Cremyll: 3 Cattle Egret by water trough. Also 1 Whimbrel, Lower Anderton. ( M Jordan)

Camel Estuary, Wadebridge to Tregunna: 4 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 9 Mute Swan, 52 Shelduck, 4 Mallard, 1 Goosander, 1 Swift, 4 Wood Pigeon, 35 Oystercatcher, 13 Whimbrel, 2 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 4 Black-headed Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 80 Herring Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 8 Little Egret, 4 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, 2 Magpie, 6 Jackdaw, 7 Rook, 25 Carrion Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 30 House Martin, 2 Swallow, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 2 Wren, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 6 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Linnet, 8 Small White, 4 Large White, 2 Green-veined White, 12 Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue, 2 Red Admiral, 2 Speckled Wood. (M Scawen)

Lanivet: 15.30-18.00: 4 Blue Tit (2 using nest box), 8 Woodpigeon, 8 Starling (2 with nest of 2+ chicks), c35 Rook in very active colony, c40 Jackdaw (30 foraging in cut field), 10 House Sparrow (many more heard), 11 Blackbird (10m 1f), 2 Coal Tit singing, 1 Pheasant calling in distance, 5 Robin (many more heard), 1 Great Tit, 1f Chaffinch, 4 Magpie, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Carrion Crow, 4 Herring Gull, 1 Pied Wagtail +2 more heard, 1 Grey Wagtail, c10 House Martin hawking and 1 Buzzard heard calling in flight. (B. Crowle)

Bodmin: 6+ Buzzards. (V Booth)

St Blazey: 3 Red Kite over 8 am. (P Bullen)

Mount Hawke: Red Kite over drifting seawards at 10:30. (P Roberts)

Housel Bay: 4 Red Kite over. (J Betteridge)

Camborne: 5 Red Kite over (12:15). (C Taylor)

Trencrom: 2 Red Kite, high over and drifting east. (J Munday)

Trellogan, Newquay: Red Kite, 1 Swift. (D Ensor)

Pendennis Point: 3 Red Kite. (I Bown)

Rosudgeon: 1 Red Kite drifting east at 13:25. (P K Bray)

Duporth: Mid Morning 4 Red Kite Drifting west. (P Wilkins)

Reawla, Gwinear: 13 Red Kite over. (T &A Polglase)

Godolphin Cross: 17 Red Kite at 17.35, generally moving north. (C Richards)

Constantine: 1 Red Kite over private garden. (A Harris)

Ashton: 2 Red Kites. (G Healey)

Polhawn Fort: 2 Red Kites wheeling around doing aerobatics above the beach this afternoon. (T Wicksteed)

Carbis Bay, private garden: 10.15, 1 Red Kite over, drifted south towards Lelant. (A Myers)

Penzance: 10+ Red Kite flying east at 16:30. Perran Sands (MOD area): Cuckoo. (J Fowler)

Jacobstow: 1 Red Kite heading west. Chaple Amble: 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Swift. (B Bosisto)

Rising Sun, Harrowbarrow: One swift feeding over small-holding, 4:45pm. (J Mazzeo)

Pennance Farm: 1 Hobby, overhead and flying in a generally easterly direction. 5 Red Kite, over golf course milling round but generally moving in an easterly direction, approx 13:25. (S Jackson)

Crowlas: 1 Hobby and 30+ Red Kites. ( G Healey )

Rock: 1 Red Kite low over. (J Gillett)

Boyton, Private Garden: Red Kite. (J Lawton)

Brunnion: 1 Red Kite heading for Carbis Bay, 2 Buzzards on thermals at 3pm, 1 Red Admiral. (P Geddes) 

Point Green, Restronguet Creek: 1 Red Kite distant, drifting Eastward. (M Wilson)

St Minver: 3 Skylark, 1 Peahen, 1 Sparrowhawk over, 2 Red Kite, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Song Thrush. Porthilly Point: 2 Whimbrel, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Shelduck, 3 Grey Heron, 10 Sand Martin, 30+ Linnet, 2 Greenfinch, 1 Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 1 Orange Tip. Tregonetha Downs: 2 Cuckoo, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 8 Linnet, 4 Yellowhammer. Newquay, Nansleden: 1 Kestrel, 20+ House Martin. Gannel Estuary: 1 Sparrowhawk over, 2 Common Sandpiper, opposite boating lake. (S Grose)

Porth Joke: 1m Garganey, 4 Swift, 2 House Martin, 2 Reed Warbler. (S Rowe)

Goldsithney: 4 Red Kite over early afternoon, 2 Swift. (R Hamilton-Ahearne)

Late Submission, 29/04/25, Polhawn, Rame: 2 Red Kite at 1pm. (L Courtnell)

Late Submission, 29/04/25, Frenchman’s Creek ( Helford River): 3 Common Sandpiper, Whimbrel and buck Roe Deer swimming across the creek from west to east. (T. Pinfield)