Offshore, Bishops Rock Lighthouse: 1 Red-Footed Booby on lighthouse at 20.35. Seen from IOS pelagic.
Lizard Point: 1 Wilson’s Petrel, 80 Cory’s Shearwater, 180 Great Shearwater, 1 Long-tailed Skua. (RBA)
Porthgwarra: (up to 08.15): 353 Cory’s Shearwater, 16 Great Shearwater, 17 Sooty Shearwater, 7 Storm Petrel, 1 Bonxie and 1 Sandwich Tern. (I Prentice)
Pendeen: (06.25 – 10.00): 1 Sabine’s Gull, 2 Great Shearwater, 150 Cory’s Shearwater, 3 Balearic Shearwater, 10 Sooty Shearwater, 2 Pomarine Skua, 4 Arctic Skua, 14 Storm Petrel, 5 Commic Tern, 1 Puffin and 8 Whimbrel. (M Buckley). (07.25 – 09.25) 57 Cory’s Shearwater, 2 Balearic Shearwater and Storm Petrel. (RBA). Also, 1 ad Sabine’s Gull at 10.17. (P Clement). In addition, (1900 – 2015hrs), 124 Cory Shearwaters, 12 Great Shearwaters, 1 Sooty Shearwater and 1 Storm Petrel. (J Hawkey)
Mousehole: (06.30 – 07.30), from lifeboat station: 5 Cory’s Shearwaters, 5 Storm Petrels, 50+ Manx Shearwaters, 50+ Kittiwakes, 2 Sandwich Terns and 2 Whimbrel. (R Webb)
Cape Cornwall (08.00 – 10.00): 90 Cory’s Shearwater, 1 Sooty Shearwater. (RBA)
Falmouth, Pendennis Point: 1 Cory’s Shearwater, 4 Great Shearwater and 60+ Storm Petrel. (RBA)
Rame Head, Penlee Point: 1 Balearic Shearwater, 5 Sooty Shearwater, 9 Storm Petrel. (RBA)
Marine Discovery (14:00-17:00 outward route SW from Penzance): 8 Cory’s Shearwater, 1 Great Shearwater, 1 Sooty Shearwater, 20 Manx Shearwater, 1 Storm Petrel, 40 Gannet, 14 Shag, 2 Grey Seal, 15 Common Dolphin including 1 young in two distinct pods. (M Claughton)
East Pentire: 2 Cory’s Shearwater, 1 Sooty Shearwater, 1 Balearic Shearwater, 55 Storm Petrel, 5 Common Scoter, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Whimbrel, 5 Common Tern this am. (S Rowe)
Chapel Amble: 4 Marsh Harrier, including female luring 3 chicks airborne with dead moorhen. (A Lea)
Drift Reservoir: 1 Cattle Egret in partial s/p. (R Ladd)
Walmsley Sanctuary: 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 1 Reed Warbler. One adult Fox seen hunting the meadow. (D. Wilson)
Stithians, Stuart Hutchings hide: 5 Common Sandpiper, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Lapwing, 3 Dunlin, 1 Ringed Plover, 7 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard. (S Ford). Also, Golden Lion, 3 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Grebe, 1 juv Great Crested Grebe, 14 Mallard, 1 Cormorant, 2 Moorhen and 1 Willow Warbler. (F Shortall). Also, 50 Herring Gull, 9 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Cormorant, 3 Common Sandpiper, 3 Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, Lapwing. (R Loader)
Nanstallon: 1 Swift. (D Roberts)
St Johns lake: A group of 8 Mediterranean Gulls. (S Eddy)
Charlestown: 1 Nuthatch. (D Hastilow)
Housel Bay 10.15 – 11.30: 1 Whitethroat, 7 (4juv m 3juv f) Stonechat, 25+ Linnet inc many juveniles, 2 Dunnock, 15+ Jackdaw, 4 Fulmar inc 1 nestling, 3 Shag, 5 Grey Seal. (M Webb)
Par Beach pool: 1 Little Grebe, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Shelduck,1 Barnacle Goose, 1 juv Yellow legged Gull, 9 Swift, 5 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Fox. (S Grose)
St Andrew’s Pond: 2 Marsh Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Great spotted Woodpecker. (S Grose)
Par Docks: 66 Oystercatcher, 16 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel, 2 Redshank, 1 Kingfisher, 9 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Hummingbird hawkmoth. (S Grose)
Par Spit Beach: 2 Sandwich Tern, 7 (3f+4m) Eider, 3 Turnstone, 3 Rock Pipit, 2 Little Egret. (S Grose)
Lostwithiel, Shirehall LNR: 1 Dipper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Grey Wagtail, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Nuthatch, 3 Buzzard. (S Grose)
TJW
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