Helston Boating lake: 2 Lesser Scaup still, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Shoveler, 12 Tufted Duck. Also, White Stork still at Huthnance Farm 9.30am. (M Saunders)
Trenwheal: 1 White Stork with blue ring still in cabbage field opposite Huthnance Park at 12.30pm, also 1 Snipe. In hedges around field, 40+ Chaffinch, 10 Redwing. (J St Ledger)
Truro: 1 Lesser Yellowlegs and 1 Common Sandpiper still in the creek next to Tesco. At Boscowan Park, 19 Lapwing, 1 Avocet, 1 Common Sandpiper, 105 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Greenshank, 1 Kingfisher. (T Wilson)
Hayle Estuary: 1 ad Ring-billed Gull, 156 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 15 Common Gull, 6 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Grey Plover, 5 Goosander, 16 Curlew , 7 Shelduck, 5 Rock Pipit, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Cettis Warbler. (S Grose)
Newlyn Harbour: 1 ad Little Gull, 1 juv Iceland Gull, 2 Great Northern Diver, 67 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 7 Black-headed Gull, 77 Turnstone. (S Grose)
Penzance, Battery Rocks: 47 Purple Sandpiper, 39 Ringed Plover (3 with darvic rings but only 2 read), 2 Dunlin, 4 Sanderling. (S Grose)
Longrock Pool: 1 m Scaup, 5 Little Grebe. (S Grose)
St Gothian Sands: 6 Gadwall, 5 Wigeon, 1 Little Grebe, 8 Oystercatcher, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 11 Tufted Duck, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Great Black-backed Gull. (M Saunders)
Hayle: 1 Garganey still (with Wigeon), 10 Goosander. (D Eva)
Ryan’s Field: 1 Rock Pipit. (T Culmer)
Gorrangorras Creek: 1 Cattle Egret, 5 Little Egret, 20 Curlew (including 1 ringed: yellow on both upper legs ?headstarted). (S Van Hear)
Kresen Kernow, Redruth, pm: 40 Greenfinch, regular winter pre-roost. (T Wright)
Bodmin, private garden: 2 m Great Spotted Woodpeckers on feeders. (J Piper)
Mawgan Porth: Saw a flock of 4 Choughs fly over the house in the morning. No time to take photos, it was a fleeting glimpse. Recognised their call and their flight pattern. (S Mathieson)
Truro Boscawen Park to Sunny Corner: 28 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Avocet, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Knot, Great White Egret over, 2 Black-headed Gulls in lengthy pair-bonding display. (K Dalziel)
Retyn: Pair of Tawny Owls have been hooting the night away for past few nights. (S Ashby)
Late submission, 15/01, Dobwalls, private garden: 1m Blackcap. (C&J Duffy)
Late submission, 15/01, St Mawes: 1 Red-necked Grebe, 7 Great Northern Diver, 1 Eider (female). (R Kirkwood)
Late submission, 14/01, Looe Island: 1 Kingfisher, 1 Raven (in vicinity of nest), 6 Oystercatcher, 10 Rock Pipit, 1 Curlew, 3 Fulmar, 12 Mallard, 2 Goldcrest , 12 Cormorant on their usual nesting cliff (2 pictures), 3 Shag, c30 Great Black-backed Gull, flock of Herring Gull uncounted. (D Spooner)
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