Please note that there will be work parties at Burniere Point hide this evening (Tuesday) and at Walmsley on Wednesday. Expect disturbance and best avoided. (Adrian Langdon – Warden)
Trevilley: 4 Dotterel in field just outside village towards Nanjizal.
Pendeen: 1 Wryneck just east of village. (P Combridge)
St Merryn, (private garden): 2 Turtle Dove back today after a few days away. Blue Tits, Great Tits and plenty Goldfinches visiting feeders. (R Hughes)
Drift Reservoir: 1 Osprey, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 15 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Sandpiper, 5 Greenshank, 1 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, Ringed Plover, and 1 Garganey. (P St Pierre)
Siblyback Lake: 15 Common Snipe, 8 Common Ringed Plover, 2 Ruff, 2 Dunlin, 6 Little Grebe, 9 Barn Swallow, 8 Northern Wheatear, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Cormorant, 2 Carrion Crow. (A Swanson)
Colliford Reservoir: 1 Whinchat, 6 Stonechat, 1 Raven, 2 Grey Heron, c20 Linnet, 4 Great-crested Grebe, 6 Canada Goose, 2 Mallard, 1 Common Buzzard, 5 Ringed Plover. (D Sharp).
Bude, Maer Lake: (Very little water left in Maer Lake now), 1 Grey Heron, 10 Moorhen, 300+ Canada Goose, 5 Mallard, 5 Teal, 19 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Ruff, 2 Wood-Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin, 28 Black-Headed Gull, 1 Med Gull. (N Bastin)
Lizard, Windmill Farm: 1 Wood Sandpiper and 1 Whinchat. (D Wright). Also, Pied Flycatcher and Common Redstart in willows. (S Votier)
East Pentire: 2 Balearic Shearwater, 5000+ Manx Shearwater, 9 Storm Petrel, 2 Common Scoter, 2 Whimbrel, 1 Great Skua, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Black Tern, 4 Sandwich Tern, 9 ‘commic’ Tern, 1 Med Gull, 17 Kittiwake this am. (S Rowe)
Pentire Point 0830-1030: 2 Sooty Shearwater, 19,000 Manx Shearwater, 1800 Gannet, 84 Kittiwake, 7 Fulmar, 1 Sandwich Tern. (G Stephenson)
Marazion beach: Large mixed flock of Ringed Plover, Sanderling, Dunlin, Turnstone and 1 Curlew Sandpiper very mobile as tide very high and lots of dogs on beach , Gannet, 2 Sandwich Tern, Juvenile Pied Wagtail, Rock Pipit, Black headed Gull. (M James)
Mousehole: 1 Arctic Skua, 2 Common Tern, 3 Sandwich Tern, 1 Swift. (P St Pierre)
Rame Head to Rame Church: 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler, 7 Whitethroat, 5 juv Cirl Bunting, 2+ active House Martin nests at Rame Barton. (K Pellow)
Rame Church – Penlee N.R: 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Whinchat. (K Pellow)
Causeland to Looe via Kilminworth: 1 Kingfisher, c100 House Martin, 2 Grey Heron, many Little Egret, 2 Mallard. (P & P Bullen)
Ruan Lanihorne: 6 Common Sandpiper, 8 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, Curlew (heard only), 3 Mute Swan, 1 Raven, many Canada Geese plus 3 ‘Barnyard’ type geese (1 possibly a Brecon Buff). (V Booth)
Watchcroft westerly to Morvah Road: 5 Whitethroat, 1 Reed Bunting (f) all in same hedge, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Kestrel. (J Evans)
Trago Liskeard (Hartridges Wood): 1 Kingfisher, 1 Beautiful Demoiselle. (B Crowle)
Newquay: 2 Kingfisher, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Sparrowhawk over, 5 Collared Dove, 8 Blackbird, 21 House Sparrow, 2 Robin,1 juv Goldfinch from private garden. (S Grose)
Mount Hawke: 1 Hummingbird Hawk-moth in the garden. (PC Girling). Also, Pensilva, 1 Convolvulous Hawk-moth. (R Lucas)
Video of Curlew Sandpiper from John Chapple:-
Late submissions, 25/8:-
Downderry: 9 Ringed Plover, 34 Oystercatcher, 3 Grey Wagtail, 18 Pied Wagtail and a White Wagtail along beach early morning. (A Payne)
Land’s End: 1 Wryneck, 1 Tree Pipit, 1 Whinchat. (T McGowan) 4 Tree Pipit, 2 Whinchat, 1 Reed Warbler (Treeve Moor), 2 Willow Warbler, many Ringed Plover over. (M Elliott). Also, 1 Whinchat, 1 Tree Pipit, 1 Lesser Whitethroat. (P Fraser)
Nanquidno: 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 1 Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff. (C Moore)
Bishop’s Quay: 1 Osprey. (J Overfield)
Drift Reservoir: 2 Wood Sandpiper (neither flagged), 11 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Sandpiper, 7 Greenshank, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Snipe, 1 Garganey. (P St Pierre)
Pendeen: 21 Tree Pipit, 1 yellow Wagtail, 1 Pied Flycatcher, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Reed Warbler. (P Combridge)