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Trotsky1977 said:
Male Black Red in Berkeley Cottages 330pm.

Hope you boys had a great day!
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You can't be that much older than me! ;)

Not a bad morning thanks, catch up in the field properly another time -

Swanpool -

Long-tailed Duck
Great Crested Grebe
Green Woodpecker (h)
2 Water Rail (including one catching a fish in the stream!)
Kingfisher (h)
2 Raven over
Chiffchaff etc

Swanpool beach and offshore -

16 Turnstone in vicinity
3 Rock Pipit
1 GN Diver
1 Guillemot
70+ Shag
15 Fulmar on cliffs


Pendennis -

2 Whimbrel on west side
1 Med Gull and
1 GN Diver in the Carrick Roads
3 Slavonian Grebes in the bay (viewed from both previous locations also)

Stithians Reservoir -

1 Slavonian Grebe
2 Goldeneye
Other waterfowl as usual, although didn't see any Shoveler

Feeders - did an hour in lieu of the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, will post all totals on blog, but highlights -

Water Rail
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
3 Reed Bunting
9 Long-tailed Tit
12 Redwing
with 4 Snipe and 14 Teal from S Hide also



Over to Samuel now of course to fill in the gaps ... ;)
 
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Forgot to mention Penryn River though. Visited at low tide so far fewer waders than on our usual high tide visits. None the less 1 Med Gull, 1 Greenshank, Redshanks, Curlew and half a dozen Teal.
 
Samuel Perfect said:
Nothing to add other than the usual female type Black Red still in my back garden, looks like a good summary otherwise
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There were the 4 Linnet over town from your road too - not sure if we were by the car or your house at the time! If you were to stand in your (very small) front garden for any length of time sure you'd get an awesome list ... ;)

(Penryn River - yep, low tide, but 50+ Curlew in the pony field of course).
 
dantheman said:
There were the 4 Linnet over town from your road too - not sure if we were by the car or your house at the time! If you were to stand in your (very small) front garden for any length of time sure you'd get an awesome list ... ;)
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I'm sure you know very well I no longer "list" ;)

[Edit] But I'll give it a go anyway :-O
 
And some pics -

1- 2 Water Rail with its fish
3 - lots of lotties (Long-tailed Tits)
 

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dantheman said:
You can't be that much older than me! ;)

Not a bad morning thanks, catch up in the field properly another time -

Swanpool -

Long-tailed Duck
Great Crested Grebe
Green Woodpecker (h)
2 Water Rail (including one catching a fish in the stream!)
Kingfisher (h)
2 Raven over
Chiffchaff etc

Swanpool beach and offshore -

16 Turnstone in vicinity
3 Rock Pipit
1 GN Diver
1 Guillemot
70+ Shag
15 Fulmar on cliffs


Pendennis -

2 Whimbrel on west side
1 Med Gull and
1 GN Diver in the Carrick Roads
3 Slavonian Grebes in the bay (viewed from both previous locations also)

Stithians Reservoir -

1 Slavonian Grebe
2 Goldeneye
Other waterfowl as usual, although didn't see any Shoveler

Feeders - did an hour in lieu of the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, will post all totals on blog, but highlights -

Water Rail
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
3 Reed Bunting
9 Long-tailed Tit
12 Redwing
with 4 Snipe and 14 Teal from S Hide also



Over to Samuel now of course to fill in the gaps ... ;)
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Had a look up Stithians today after a trip up the dump:

Main hide:
70 Lapwing - did you see any yesterday??
60 Canada Goose
Grey Heron
Little Egret
4 Little Grebe

S cut off:
Water Rail
Snipe
Reed Bunting
GS Woodpecker drumming
20 Teal
Grey Heron
 
Trotsky1977 said:
Had a look up Stithians today after a trip up the dump:

Main hide:
70 Lapwing - did you see any yesterday??
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Nope, the reasonable pre-christmas flock had perhaps moved on (the Golden Plovers certainly must have). We had c.20 in flight the other week, but the general area is suitable for them. New flock perhaps, or just in the area, but not visiting the res to roost.

Nice.
 
dantheman said:
Nope, the reasonable pre-christmas flock had perhaps moved on (the Golden Plovers certainly must have). We had c.20 in flight the other week, but the general area is suitable for them. New flock perhaps, or just in the area, but not visiting the res to roost.

Nice.
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There were 20 resting up to right of the hide, then another flock of 50 turned up (approx 1200hrs).
 
Trotsky1977 said:
There were 20 resting up to right of the hide, then another flock of 50 turned up (approx 1200hrs).
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There's still plenty of shore for them to rest on, despite the water levels having risen, so that's good.

Not sure if the earlier ones would have moved on anyway or if disturbance from the public and dogs were to blame ... got a sneaking suspicion it must have been a factor tbh.


Edit - btw both College and Argal Reservoirs are now both completely full - College since a few weeks back, Argal slightly more recently.
 
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Samuel Perfect said:
Point blank views of the female type Black Redstart outside my bedroom window. Even saw it cough up a pellet (didn't know they did that)!
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Remember those flycatching passerines do that now, but never witnessed (or maybe a spot fly once). Presume you collected the pellet for scientific research into its diet ... ? ;)
 
Spent the morning birding locally - tried for the 'two yellow-browed warblers in a day' scenario, but saw neither. Some nice birds otherwise though -

First interesting bird was a Nuthatch calling somewhere in town as I walked up the garden path.

Gorrangorras/Penryn River (high tide) -

1 Common Sandpiper
8 Greenshank
30 Redshank
80 Curlew
6 Little Egret
7 Teal
10 Mallard
12 Mute Swan
2 Kingfisher
2 Snipe
1 Water Rail
3+ Little Grebe

2 Sparrowhawk circling over
5 Bullfinch, 30 Redwing, 3 Greenfinches, 2 Pheasant (h) etc

(Bissom Sewage Works) -

6 Chiffchaff
1 Goldcrest
1 Grey Wagtail

Also caught up with J St Ledger on site.

Argal Res -

1 Common Gull
100 BH Gull
1 Canada Goose
3 Mute Swan
3 Great Crested Grebe
7 Tufted Duck
c.10 Mallard
1 Coot

College Res -

3 GBBGull
10 BH Gull
50+ Herring Gull
c.90 Wigeon
16 Tufted Duck
2 Scaup m
2 Goldeneye f
35 Teal
5 Mallard
3 Moorhen
26 Coot
2 Grey Heron
2 Great Crested Grebe
3 Cormorant

1 Chiffchaff
1 Marsh Tit
2 Goldcrest


1 Barn Owl, 6 Bullfinch west of Treverva

Hit the Prince of Wales Pier at dusk for the gull roost -

350 BH Gull
5 GBBBGull
 
The view from by the 'Waterside Dentist', and a close up of the left hand side of Gorrangorras with roosting Little Egrets, Redshank and Greenshank.

Common Sandpiper, and Common Snipe
 

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Marsh Tit - it was having a nice preen and showing well, although I was almost directly underneath.

Goldeneye

The two Scaup - this was the only photo I got of 'them'
 

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dantheman said:
Remember those flycatching passerines do that now, but never witnessed (or maybe a spot fly once). Presume you collected the pellet for scientific research into its diet ... ? ;)
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Really wanted to but it rolled down the side of the roof and couldn't see it from my window. The roof is also paper thin so don't think I'll put my full weight on it ;)
 
Report of the lone Bottlenose Dolphin exploring Falmouth Harbour around 11am before heading upriver towards Penryn. Keep your eyes open, I'm attempting to try and add it to my "garden" list as I can just about see some of the harbour from my bedroom window. :-O

Also report of Red-necked Grebe off Castle Beach this morning from CK Hawk.
 
dantheman said:
1000th bf post. Commiserations/congratulations ;)

Might check the grebe out later or perhaps tomorrow ...
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Thanks ;) It's been a bumpy ride!

I wouldn't be confident in calling it a RNGrebe, could well just be a Slav but thought I'd pass on the message anyway.

The fish that the Water Rail caught at Swanpool on the 24th has been narrowed down to either Mullet or Bass but I've only had one reply so far so have put the post on iSpot (a brilliant resource for general wildlife ID questions).
 
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