Sunday 7th August 2022

Sunday 7th August 2022

Nare Head & at Portloe: Honey Buzzard, 2 Kestrel plus lots of Stonechat, tits species. (P Woolf)

Nanjizal: 160 trapped and ringed including: 96 Sedge Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 11 Whitethroat, 9 Reed Warbler, 13 Willow Warbler, 14 Swallow, 1 Green Sandpiper. Also in/over the valley: juv Marsh Harrier, 20+ Swift, fem Yellow Wagtail, 3 Tree Pipit, 1 Lesser Whitethroat. Please keep to public rights of way. (J Overfield, R Veal)

Kenidjack: 4 Wheatear, 10 Stonechat, 5 Whitethroat and presumed leucistic Linnet amongst Linnet flock seen briefly then north. Bill structure and raised crown perhaps favour Linnet rather than Canary. (D Flumm)

Pendeen: 1 Lesser Whitethroat. (P Clements)

Bartinney: 1 juvenile Cuckoo, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler and 2 Willow Warbler. (N Rogers)

Drift: 3 Wood Sandpiper, 11 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 5 Common Sandpiper, 4 Dunlin, 7 Grey Wagtails (inc. 3 juv’s), Willow Warbler in song, 1 Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, 1 Snipe, 1 Swift. (J Hawkey, T McGowan, R Veal, & S Rogers)

Penzance Harbour: 7 Turnstone (A McKechnie)

St Ives Island: 1 Sooty Shearwater feeding with Herring Gulls 400m offshore. 1 Wheatear, 1 Bluefin Tuna (P Nason)

Godrevy Point: (10:15 – 11:15am) 2 Chough, 5 (2m 3juv) Stonechat, 1 Rock Pipit, 9 Linnet. (M Webb)

Stithians Reservoir: 3 Little Ringed Plover (inc 1 juvenile), 12 Ringed Plover, 7 Common Sandpiper, 1 Golden Plover (in summer plumage), 25+ Dunlin, 11 Curlew, 2 Lapwing, 1 Kingfisher. (J St Ledger, A Lea)

Trevose: (11:00am) 4 Stonechat, 3 Rock Pipit, Gannet – approx 30 / hour heading SW (S Ashby)

Walmsley: 6 Cattle Egret, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Water Rail (heard), Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Snipe, 4 Buzzard, Marsh Harrier, 11 Greylag Geese flying over, 20 Canada Geese, Green Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Swift, Swallow, Sand Martin. (M James)

Freathy: 1 Great Skua and 1 Wheatear this evening.  Also, 3 Common Dolphin. (M Jordan)

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Leucistic Linnet – David Flumm
Leucistic Linnet – David Flumm
Turnstone – Alex McKechnie
Ringed Plover – Adrian Lea
Ringed Plover – Adrian Lea
Dunlin – Adrian Lea
Grey Wagtail – Adrian Lea
Rock Pipit – Martin Webb
Stonechat – Martin Webb
Chough – Martin Webb
Chough – Martin Webb
Chough – Martin Webb