Wednesday 21st December 2022

Wednesday 21st December 2022

Polbathic Creek:  Greenshank, Barnacle Goose (with Canadas), Egyptian Goose and still 2 Great White Egrets. (A Blonden)

Crowdy Reservoir: 5 Goosander (1 ad m) 46 Teal, 6 Tufted Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebes (B Craven)

Marazion: dark juv Glaucous Gull feeding offshore, fem Velvet Scoter still close offshore, 1 Common Scoter, c15 Sanderling, c20 Common Gull. (R Veal)

Crowlas: 2 Firecrest, c150 Chaffinch, c30 Linnet, c140 Redwing, c30 Fieldfare, c250 Lapwing over, c150 Golden Plover over. (R Veal)

Malpass: 1 Spoonbill on River Truro

Tregunna: 1 Spoonbill on Camel estuary

Cape Cornwall: 2 Sooty Shearwater south, 2 Great Northern Diver, 10 Bottlenose Dolphins north. (N Wheatley)

Padstow: 11 Little Grebe, 1 m Tufted Duck, 1 Kingfisher at the old boating lake, 300+ Golden Plover/Lapwing in fields opp Retreat holiday park.(S Grose)

Par Beach: 3 Common Gull amongst 200 Black headed Gull.(S Grose)

St Andrews Pool: 1 Mediterranean Gull,1 Common Gull, 167 Black headed Gull, 30 Teal, 1 Water Rail.(S Grose)

Castle an Dinas: 51 Golden Plover.(S Grose)

Blackacre: 200+ Lapwing.(S Grose)

Coverack: Merlin chasing Redwings over Trevothen. (D Beadle, D Chapman-Gardner)

Gothian N R. 2 Shelduck.14 Gadwall.7 Wigeon. 1 Chough, 230+ Lapwing in fields behind, and 13 Teal in marsh ( T Polglase)

Navax Point: 1 Black – throated Diver ,going west. (T Polglase)

Camel Estuary, Wadebridge to Tregunna: 8 Canada goose, 1 Greylag goose, 22 Mute swan, 38 Shelduck, 35 Wigeon, 32 Mallard, 55 Teal, 1 Mandarin duck, 1 Pheasant, 1 Red-legged partridge, 3 Wood pigeon, 1 Collared dove, 1 Little grebe, 45Oystercatcher, 1 Avocet, c. 350 Lapwing, c. 1500 Golden plover, 15 Grey plover, 21 Ringed plover, 45 Curlew, 57 Black-tailed godwit, 150 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 1 Common sandpiper, 35 Redshank, 3 Greenshank, 260 Black-headed gull, 2 Great black-backed gull, 55 Herring gull, 4 Cormorant, 1 Spoonbill, 1 Grey
heron, 5 Little egret, 2 Buzzard, 2 Magpie, 38 Carrion crow, 2 Blue tit, 2 Great tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Wren, 3 Starling, 8 Blackbird, 1 Redwing, 1 Song thrush, 1 Mistle thrush, 4 Robin, 12 House sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 2 Grey wagtail, 2 Pied wagtail, 1 Meadow pipit, 42 Chaffinch, 11 Goldfinch (M Scawen et al).

Falmouth; Castle Beach: 1 Slavonian Grebe, 1 Great Northern Diver, 12 Common Scoter, 3 Black Redstart, 2 Grey Wagtail, 3 Blackcap (female), 2 Rock Pipit, 2 Stonechat, 10 Turnstone. (J St Ledger, A Lea, S Van Hear, T Pinfield)

Restronguet Weir: 1 Great Northern Diver, 4 Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel. Also numbers of Fieldfare and Blackbird eating windfall apples in private garden nearby. (J St Ledger, A Lea)

Swanpool:  15 Common Scoter, 3 Great northern Divers, 1 Slavonian Grebe, 1 Black Redstart on rocks. (T Pinfield)

St Ives: 9 Great Northern Diver in bay, 2 Black Redstart (m Porthgwidden, f Barnoon), 12 Purple Sandpiper, 24 Turnstone, 3 Firecrest. (S Rowe)

Par, Boscundle Woods Treghrean: 2 Stock Dove. (I Stewart)

Late submission 20/12 Marazion Marsh: 8 Common Snipe in one group, 4 Mallard (m), Teal, 1 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 3 Moorhen, several Stonechat.
Mounts Bay: 1 Velvet Scoter, 10+ Common Scoter (very choppy so difficult to count) 8 Sanderling, 1 Turnstone, 2 Pied Wagtail and 1 Oystercatcher on beach. (S Chandler)

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Stock Dove. Iain Stewart
Black Redstart. Tim Pinfield
Slavonian grebe. John St Ledger
Red-breasted Merganser. Adrian Lea
Fieldfare. Adrian Lea
Kestrel. Adrian Lea
Stonechat. Adrian Lea
Blackcap. Adrian Lea
Black Redstart. Adrian Lea