Todays Birding highlights in Cornwall include:

Lands End – **AMERICAN BUFF-BELLIED PIPIT** again at Trevilley Farm, tho very elusive.

Crowdy Reservoir – Goosander (2 fem) again

Hayle Estuary – Green winged Teal again this morning from causeway.

Marazion – Pale bellied Brent Goose (2) again this morning on beach

Wadebridge – No sign of Tundra bean geese this morning at Walmsley Sanctuary but Short eared Owl.

College Reservoir - Firecrest still in woodland north of reservoir. Med Gull (ad and 2w) and Kingfisher (thanks H.Cook)

Antony – Spoonbill (1) on River Lynher off Scooner Farm (thanks C.Buckland)

St Ives Island – Balearic Sh’water (2), Pom Skua (1), Sooty Sh’water (1), Manx Sh’water (1), Arctic Skua (2), Med Gull (3), Black Redstart (1)

Pendeen – Pom Skua (6), Bonxie (13), Balearic Sh’water (6), Sooty Sh’water (3).

St Ives - Osprey (juv) just north of St Ives along South West Coastal Path at 13.30hrs. (thanks J.Moore)

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