Many thanks for another review from Adrian Lea, with a fine crop of photos to choose from…
“The fine weather has continued throughout the week and this, combined with some excellent visiting and breeding birds, has been reflected in the submission of some great photographs to our sightings team.

The week was certainly provided with an excellent start by Steve Rogers and his ground-skimming photograph of the Kentish Plover at Marazion Beach and I really liked the Linnet photographed by Dean Pollard at Goss Moor NNR.

On Tuesday Clive Richards provided a gorgeous hovering Kestrel photograph taken at Parc Trammel and the quality photographs continued on Wednesday with a lovely singing Reed Warbler at Calstock Wetlands by Sara Fuge (albeit taken on Monday), a singing male Blackcap at Walmsley/Burniere by Paul Davies and a great male Linnet photo taken at Marazion Marsh RSPB by Martin Webb.

Martin repeated his performance on Thursday, providing an excellent action shot of a Tufted Duck at Helston Boating Lake, while Alex McKechnie kindly provided a beautifully detailed Purple Sandpiper photograph taken at Battery Rocks.

On Friday Nigel Rogers struck gold and submitted a duo of lovely Turtle Dove photographs taken at Lands End, I wonder if this was the same bird seen at Connor Downs on Saturday and this time photographed nicely by D Cains, while Martin Webb provided a lovely Little Egret photograph taken at Marazion Marsh.

Sunday saw Aadil Khan at St Gothian Sands, where he was able to provide a great photograph of a dampened Sand Martin resting on the fencing wire and also Croft Pascoe Forest, where he was able to photograph a Spotted Flycatcher amongst the Storm Goretti blitzed woodland.

My choice for photo of the week this week would be split between the Spotted Flycatcher and Sand Martin (Aadil Khan), the Purple Sandpiper (Alex McKechnie) and the Kentish Plover (S Rogers). Each of the photographs are excellent, and well-done to all three photographers. But, I need to select a single photograph and I particularly like the low-level image of the Kentish Plover by Steve Rogers, a great photographic record of this rare vagrant visiting our shores.

Many thanks once again to everyone who has taken the time to submit sighting reports, photographs and videos to our sightings team, it really is greatly appreciated by so many people.”