Tuesday 5th July 2022

Tuesday 5th July 2022

Stithians Res: 1 Greater Scaup, 1 Ruff, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 11 Curlew, 2 Grey Heron, Willow Warbler, Little Egret, 12 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Little Grebe, 3 Herring Gull, 2 Linnet, 6 Mallard (3 Ducklings), 12+ Swallow, 2 Buzzard, 1 Cormorant, Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, 4 Willow Warbler, 1 Greylag Goose (moulting), 3 Canada Goose (1 gosling), 7 Pied Wagtail (1 juv). (C Foote, T Weston, N Watmough, M Webb, R Bowyer)

Kingsmill Lake: 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Greenshank, 27 Redshank, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 22 Curlew, 7 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 5 Cormorant, 2 Shelduck escorting 8 chicks, 163+ Black-headed Gull & 34+ Herring Gull. (P Kemp)

Devoran: 108 Canada geese, 130+ Black headed gull (inc one colour ringed bird), Swift, Swallow, Greenfinch, juvenile Coal tit, Nuthatch (C Foote)

Gribben Head: 5 m Eider off Platt beach. (J Overfield)

Polbathic Creek: 2 Common Sandpiper. (A Blonden)

Wadebridge: 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 ad Oystercatcher, 1 Greenfinch from bridge bike hire. (S Grose)

Polzeath: 1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Coal Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 long tailed Tit, 1 Greenfinch, 4 House Martin, 3 Swift from private garden next to Telephone exchange building. (S Grose)

Between Hella Point and Gwennap Head: Whitethroat, Raven, Swift, 3 Shags including 1 juv, Grey Seal, 4 Rock Doves, several groups of Jackdaws, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Red-banded Sand Wasps, one very busy, burrowing, approx 8 Rabbits right on cliff edge, Meadow Pipit, Rock Pipit, 17.45: flock of approx 20 Linnets, feeding on coast edge flower seedheads, followed by a group of 6 at 18.15 doing the same. (M Claughton)

Millpool (private garden): 2 Bullfinch and exuvia of Broad-bodied Chaser on surface pond vegetation. (M Claughton)

Late Submission, Porthgwarra, 3-4 July: 90 Storm Petrel mist-netted overnight at Gwennap Head, including a bird from Skokholm Island. (West Cornwall RG)

 

TJW

Green Sandpiper – Charlotte Foote
Curlew – Charlotte Foote
Ruff – Charlotte Foote
Greater Scaup – Charlotte Foote
Coal Tit – Charlotte Foote
Greater Scaup – Martin Webb
Blackcap – Martin Webb
Linnet – Martin Webb
Willow Warbler – Martin Webb
Common Sandpiper – Rebecca Bowyer