Helston Boating Lake: 2 (m&f) Lesser Scaup, 18 (10m 8f) Tufted Duck, 4 (2m 2f) Shoveler, 20+ Mallard, 1pr Mute Swan, 3 Moorhen, 20+ Coot, 26 Canada Goose, 40+ Black-headed Gull, 50+ Herring Gull 10.20 – 11.30. (M Webb)
Bude Marsh: 5 White-Fronted Goose, 1 Barnacle Goose. (A Roberts)
Gannel Estuary: 1 Caspian Gull mid-pm. (S Rowe, M Lammas)
Constantine Bay: 6 Turnstone, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, 20 Oystercatcher, 5 Grey Plover, 2 Rock Pipit, 1 Kestrel, 10 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Cormorant. (Finley Lynch, age 8)
Stithians Reservoir: 1 Great White Egret, 8 Wigeon, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe. (J St Ledger)
Penzance, Battery Rocks: 7 Purple Sandpiper, 15 Ringed Plover, 4 Turnstone, 3 Curlew, 3 Cormorant, 3 Great Black-backed Gull. Also 18 Turnstone, 1 Little Egret, 23 Herring Gull in the harbour. (P K Bray). Also 1 Sanderling, 15 Black-headed Gull, 18 Turnstone on the beach. (S Willson)
Coverack: 1 Razorbill, 2 Great Northern Diver. (S Willson)
Central Falmouth: 1 f Black Redstart still. (S Van Hear)
Carbis Moor: 1 Roe Deer stag (in velvet), 2 Bullfinch (pair), 6 Siskin, 4 Greenfinch (3 f 1m),4 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (pair), 1 Marsh Tit, numbers of Blue, Great and Coal Tit. (V Booth)
Carnkie, Helston: 2 Water Rail, 1 (f) Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker. (A Lea)
Truro: 2 Green Woodpecker feeding on grass verge close to Waitrose. (C Taylor)
Retyn, Private Garden: ca 10 Sparrow, 6 Goldfinch, 2 pr Blackbird, 4 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 1 Robin, 2 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch – 1st I’ve seen here in about 5 years. (S Ashby)
Anderton: 7 Avocet, 2 Greenshank, 5 Redshank, 2 Shelduck, 1 Curlew, 1 Oystercatcher. (D Sharp)
Crowdy Reservoir: 2 Goosander, 1 Little Grebe, 3 Cormorant, 9 Teal, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Treecreeper, 7 Raven over. (S Grose)
Davidstow Airfield: 1 adult Yellow-legged Gull, 76 Lesser Black-backed Gull (stealing sheep food pellets), 2 Snipe. (S Grose)
Newquay, Trevemper: 7 Cattle Egret, 4 Little Egret in horse field. (S Grose)
Late Submission, 16/02/26, Chapel Porth to Chapel Coombe: 5 Chough. (J Thomas)
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