Tuesday 26th August 2025

Tuesday 26th August 2025

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 Lake15 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 Lanihorne6 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)

Wheatear - Alistair Swanson
Wheatear – Alistair Swanson
Dunlin - Alistair Swanson
Dunlin – Alistair Swanson
Cormorant - Alistair Swanson
Cormorant – Alistair Swanson
Whinchat - Deena Sharp
Whinchat – Deena Sharp
Maer Lake - Nigel Bastin
Maer Lake – Nigel Bastin
Kingfisher - P & P Bullen
Kingfisher – P & P Bullen
Canada Geese - Vic Booth
Canada Geese – Vic Booth
Common Sandpiper - Vic Booth
Common Sandpiper – Vic Booth
Kingfisher - Shaun Grose
Turnstone - Mark James
Turnstone – Mark James
Ringed Plover - Mark James
Ringed Plover – Mark James