Friday 1st August 2025

Friday 1st August 2025

Stithians Lake, 06.30: 6 Common Sandpiper at dam (4 on concrete spillway beneath footpath across dam and 2 on nearby beach), 2 Grasshopper Warbler reeling along hillside. (A Lea)

Boscundle Woods, Par: 1 Firecrest. (I Stewart)

Gunwalloe cliffs: 10 Chough feeding. (J Richardson)

Cant Cove, Camel Estuary: Drake Common Scoter. (P Rowse)

Porthilly, Rock: c. 100+ Mediterranean Gull mainly adult, c. 20 Sandwich Tern. (P Rowse)

Saltash; Kingsmill Lake: 4 Whimbrel, 32 Curlew, 15 Greenshank, 36 Redshank, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 adult Dunlin, 18 Little Egret on the rising tide this morning. (P Kemp)

Rame Head: 2 Cirl Bunting, 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Stonechat, 2 Gannet. (M Saunders)

Pendeen Lighthouse, 20 mins: 30 Gannet, 40 Manx Shearwater, 10 Swallow. (S Willson)

Marazion Marsh: 1 Wood Sandpiper. (S Willson)

Perran Sands, Perranporth, near stone cross:  4 Swift feeding, 3 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin, Clouded Yellow.  (J Savage)

Downderry, 06.15-07.45: moving west 222 Gannet, 1 Balearic Shearwater, 2 Fulmar, 3 Arctic Skua, 13 Mediterranean Gull. (A Payne)

Crowdy: 1 Cormorant, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, lots of Siskin, Goldfinch, Goldcrest, mix of Gulls on reservoir. (G Williams)

Hayle Black Bridge, 10.05-10.15: 1 Little Egret, 35 Canada Goose, 200+ mixed Gull flock. (M Webb)

Goonhilly Downs: 1 adult Little Stint, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Snipe, 1 Wheatear. (D Collins)

Kynance Lane: 1 Wheatear, 1 Swift. (D Collins)

Kynance to Soapy Cove: 20 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 10 Common Whitethroat, 1 Swift, 1 Snipe, 30+ Stonechat. (D Collins)

Newlyn: 2 Dipper. (S Grose)

Drift Reservoir: 8 ad +2 juv Little Grebe, 3 Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 3 Grey Heron, 4 Raven (feeding on fish carcass), 16 Cormorant, 85 Canada Goose, 3 Little Egret, 2 Dunlin. (S Grose)

Northern Arm: 2nd pr Great Crested Grebe with 1 juv, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Jay, raft of 11 Little Grebe! (S Grose)

Sennen, Maria’s Lane: 5 Chough, 1 Common Whitethroat, 2 Stonechat. (S Grose)

Carnsew Pool: 5 Curlew, 8 Common Sandpiper, 10 Ringed Plover, 1 Greenshank, 4 Sanderling, 3 Dunlin, 1 Whimbrel, 9 Oystercatcher, 2 juv Mediterranean Gull. (S Grose)

Copperhouse Creek: 36 Black-headed Gull, 86 Mediterranean Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Great Black-backed Gull, 106 Juv Herring Gull. (S Grose)

Pendeen Watch: 14 Cory’s Shearwater, 9 Great Shearwater,  4 Sooty Shearwater, 1 Balearic Shearwater, 2 European Storm Petrel. (S Rogers, P Combridge, N Rogers)

 

 

Late submission, 31/07, East Looe river: 1 Kingfisher. (J Brown )

Late submission, 28/07, Mounts Bay, Eastern Green: 1 Laughing Gull. (S Harley)

 

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Swallows – Simon Willson
Gannets – Simon Willson
Wood Sandpiper – Simon Willson
Cormorant – Gavin Williams
Spotted Flycatcher – Gavin Williams
juv. Black-headed Gull – Martin Webb
Little Egret – Martin Webb
Stonechat – David Collins
Laughing Gull – Steve Harley
Laughing Gull – Steve Harley