Walmsley Sanctuary.

Please be careful when using the tower hide access as the bullocks have got in behind the hide and broken several of the boardwalk planks. My fault unfortunately but we will get them fixed as soon as we can. Adrian (Reserve warden).

Porthilly Point: 1 Hooded Crow still present. (S Grose)

Restonguet Creek: 1 Osprey just off the Quay at Point at 18:00. (M Wilson)

Walmsley: 1 Hobby hunting dragonflies, distant mostly but on occasions in front of hide, 20+Cattle Egrets, 1 Kestrel, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 male Marsh Harrier, 100+ Swallows. (A Langdon, R Chiffers)

Breney Moor reserve and Helman Tor 1500-1630: 2 Marsh Tit, 3 Nuthatch, 4 Chiffchaff , 1 Redstart heard but not seen, 2 Buzzard, 1 Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Robin, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Magpie, Jay, Woodpigeon, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Stonechat, Swallows ( numerous), 2 House Martin. (N Best)

St Ives, Island: 124 European Storm Petrel, Sooty Shearwater, 2 Arctic Skua (Ad + juv), 3 Arctic Tern, 3 Sandwich Tern, 10,000+ Manx Shearwater, all West. 13 Porpoise, 3 Common Dolphin. Also Gannets, Fulmar, Kittiwake & Mediterranean Gulls moving. 07:30 – 09:00. (J Tragen)

Rumps/Pentire: Lots of Barn Swallows and a Pied Wagtail around the farm. Flocks of Linnets, the occasional Stonechat and a Kestrel on the Rumps. A few Cormorants on the Moules. (G Williams)

Trewornan Bridge: 7 Cattle Egret +2 more just up the rd before Gut Bridge.(S Grose)

Rock Helipad Field: 1 Kestrel, 1 Sparrowhawk over. (S Grose)

Hayle, Copperhouse Creek: c40 Redshank, 5 Greenshank, 1 Curlew, 7 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Common Sandpiper, 67 Canada Geese. (P K & T F Bray)

Hayle, Ryans Field: 25 Redshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 1 Curlew, 3 Dunnock, 1 Chiffchaff, 44 Canada Geese. (P K & T F Bray)

Hayle Causeway: 7 Oystercatcher, c220 Canada Geese. (P K & T F Bray)

Stithians, Stuart Hutchins Hide: 4 Wood Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Curlew. 1 Greenshank, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 18 Little Grebe, 2 Great-crested Grebe, 1f Garganey, 1f Shoveler, 8 Mallard, 2 juv Great Crested Grebe, 1juv Moorhen 1 Little Egret, 2 (1ad 1juv) Grey Heron, 6 Cormorant. (S Van Hear, A Lea, R Loader, M Webb et al)

East Pentire: 8-9am countless 1000’s of  Manx Shearwaters 100’s of Gannets, 1 Storm Petrel. (M Lammas)

Late submission 13/08 Porth Joke: Adult American Golden Plover flew east at 19:25, 6 Swift. (B Bosisto)

Late submission 13/08 Scillonian III sailing, Penzance to Wolf Rock: 1 Great Northern Diver,  26 Herring Gull, 50 Black-headed Gull, 6 Great Black-backed Gull, 47 Shag, 1 Fulmar, 28 Gannet, 500 Manx Shearwater, 1 Kittiwake, 1 Common Tern, 1 European Storm Petrel, 1 Balearic Shearwater, 1 Razorbill, 3 Harbour Porpoise, 17 Common Dolphin. Wolf Rock to St Mary’s: 2 Fulmar, 2 Herring Gull, 140 Manx Shearwater, 3 European Storm Petrel, 1 Sooty Shearwater, 1 Great Black-backed Gull , 2 Gannet, 1 Ocean Sun Fish. St Mary’s to Wolf Rock: 9 Herring Gull, 3 Gannet, 20 Shag, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Sandwich Tern, 80 Manx Shearwater, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Great Shearwater, 1 Guillemot, 1 Great Skua, 3 Blue Fin Tuna. Wolf Rock to Penzance: 1 Guillemot, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 European Storm Petrel, 6 Arctic Tern, 570 Manx Shearwater, 4 Common Tern, 4 Great Shearwater, 23 Gannet, 1 Great Skua, 2 Kittiwake, c20 Common Dolphin, 1 Atlantic Grey Seal. ( M Jones)

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