Swanpool - go to Falmouth beach and follow the cliff path at the right hand end, buy great ice cream at beach hut, cross road to pool.
Or drive there.
At the seaside end are usually 1-3 Med gulls and Water rail that appear from the reeds to your left.
Walk around the right hand side following the main road, from about half way look again for Water rail about two feet from the edge.
At the 'ducks crossing' sign there has been a Shoveler duck, some strange x-Mallard, a true Mallard female that's surviving well with a deformed beak.
Looking across the pool there's a breeding raft for the Mute swans that's popular with the Cormorants for drying out - the Cormorants are looking very fine in breeding plumage just now.
From the sign follow the pool around past a bench and pool map - look to the right for a nasty building that might be a pumping station, turn right there up a narrow lane into the
Swanvale nature reserve - it's about 200 yards long.
Lately there's been every Tit including Long tailed, Grey wagtail, Bullfinch, Jays, Nuthatch etc.
Returning to the pool you can continue the circuit back to the beach but that side is very overgrown, once at the beach at the right hand end there's another cafe - a few yards up the road from there is the coastal path which leads as far as you want to go - first stop is Maenporth a couple of miles away.
Falmouth is an odd place for birding, the sea is packed with huge Cormorants, occasional Little egret, few Gannets a Razorbill - not much else.
There's always a Kestrel around Pendennis castle, Turnstones scuttling about the quays, Herons down the creeks - come to think of it the best way to see Falmouth is by boat.
There are many boat trips.....
Ferry to St Mawes - see the 16th century castle and get a further ferry to Place house, walk around St Anthony head,
Ferry to Flushing and do a circular walk to Mylor churchtown,
Ferry to the Helford river and go to Trebah & Glendurgan gardens - both are magnificent and have private beaches.