Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Late News, 02/02, Newquay, Watergate Bay: 1 Corn Bunting, 9 Linnet, 1 Peregrine Falcon. (S Grose)

Late News, 02/02, Porth Reservoir: 5 Great Crested Grebe, 3 m Tufted Duck, 1 Little Grebe, 9 Coot, 11 Moorhen, 19 Mallard, 1 Teal, 1 Goosander (redhead below dam wall), 1 Grey Heron, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Raven over, 1 Song Thrush. (S Grose)

Late News, 02/02, Nansledon: 2 Barn Owl ( circling the chimney of the old lead mine at Trewollack). (S Grose)

Drift Reservoir: 1m Ring-necked Duck, Black-necked Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 8 Tufted Duck, Coot, 35 Lapwing, 11 Stock Dove. (D Flumm)

Porthgwarra: 13 Golden Plover. (P Taylor, H Mitchell)

Sennen: juv Iceland Gull at the school (K Wilson)

Jubilee Pool, Penzance: 4 Purple Sandpiper, 30 Sanderling, 2 Ringed Plover, m Black Redstart, Grey Wagtail. (D Flumm) 14 Purple Sandpiper, 58 Sanderling, 53 Turnstone. (P Taylor, H Mitchell)

Black Redstart – Dave Flumm

Purple Sandpiper – Dave Flumm

Grey Wagtail – Dave Flumm

Newlyn: 8 (5 ad, 2 2w, 1 1w) Mediterranean Gull amongst the bathing and preening gulls at the river mouth this evening. (T Mills)

Hayle Estuary RSPB: 1w Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Ruff, pale-bellied Brent Goose, 6 Grey Plover, 1 Kestrel, 1 Kingfisher on Copperhouse. ad Caspian Gull, c30 Common Gull 1 f Red-breasted Merganser on Lelant Saltings. (R Veal, T Mills) ad Ring-billed Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull, ad argentatus Herring Gull. (M Elliott)

Mousehole: juv Glaucous Gull, juv Iceland Gull, 1st w Caspian Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, ad argentatus Herring Gull on St Clements Isle late pm. (M Elliott)

Gwithian: 1 ad Glaucous Gull. (P Freestone)

Roche: 1f Black Redstart (J Rance)

Tywarnhayle: (11.30 – 12.00) 1 Buzzard, 1 Herring Gull, 1 Wood Pigeon, 14 Jackdaw, 1 Raven, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Wren, 3 Blackbird, 5 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail, 5 Chaffinch. (RB & PC Girling)

Devoran Quay: 1 Avocet, 1 Spotted Redshank, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 27 Black-tailed Godwit, 200+ Dunlin, 2 Greenshank, 120+ Redshank, 100+Curlew, 41 Common Gull, 5 Mediterranean Gull,14 Shelduck, 1 Sparrowhawk (over). Also numbers of Teal & Wigeon.  (J St Ledger)

Avocet – John St Ledger

Spoonbill – John St Ledger

Grey Plover – John St Ledger

Perranworthal: Spoonbill still present on Perranworthal just south of surfers café and bakery. (S Turner)

St Breward: Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, 2 Redwing, 4 Nuthatch, Starlings, Wood Pigeon, Robins, Blackbirds, 1 Kestrel. (J Stedman)

Bude: Cattle Egret Bude rugby club pitch early morning. 2 Shellduck top field Rodds bridge this afternoon. (R Maye)

Pennance Point: 1 Velvet Scoter, 4 Great Northern Diver, 2 Purple Sandpiper, 4 Med Gull. (M Broadbent)

Trelill: 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 1 Woodcock, 3 Coal Tit from private garden, also 4 dead Hare dumped in a layby. (S Grose).

Porth Reservoir: 8 Great Crested Grebe, 8 Tufted Duck, 1 Firecrest nr permit building. (S Grose)

East Pentire, Newquay: 2 Manx Shearwater, 11 Red-throated Diver. (S Rowe)

Gannel Estuary: 2 Cattle Egret late pm. (S Rowe)

Gluvian: Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Chiffchaff , male Blackcap. (B Bosisto)

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