Cornwall Birding

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING – 86 birds since 1965. Birds since 2000:
2000  - Pelynt 1cal 7 Nov – 14 Dec
2001  - Helston adult 19 – 29 Aug
              Kynance Cove adult 9 Jun + Lizard Village 13 Jun
              Lands End/Sennen 1cal 29 Oct
              Lizard Village 1cal 25 Sep
              Newquay 19 – 23 Jun
              Torpoint 6 Jan
              Tregadillet 1cal 28 Oct
              Wadebridge adult 10 – 19 Jun
2002  - Barriper, Camborne 3 Sep
              Bodmin 20 Jun
              Bude 1cal 1 Dec
              Carn Bosavern 1cal 1 Oct
              Cot 20 Jun
              Egloshayle 2 Jul
              Goldsithney 29 Oct – 31 Dec - Marazion Marsh 17 + 27 Oct
              Gunwalloe ad 30 Jun – 3 Jul
              Hayle 1 Nov
              Land’s End Sennen (2) 19 – 23 Jun
              Land’s End Sennen (3) 1cal 25 Sep with two 27 Sep and one to 22 Oct + 28 Nov - Polgigga/Trethewey 1cal
               12 Sep and Land’s End Sennen 15 – 24 Sep – also St Just intermittently 26 Sep – 12 Dec and Cot 3 Oct
              and Vellandreath 2 Oct
               Long Rock 13 Sep, Penzance 29 Sep
               Mousehole ad 19 + 24 Jun
               Padstow 2 Jun
               Penzance 1cal 19 Oct – 1 Nov and 14 Dec
               Port Isaac ad 16 – 25 Jun
               Porthgwarra 31 May
               Raftra Farm 27 + 30 Jun
               Trevose Head ad 14 Jul
               Trewellard 1cal 23 Sep
              Wadebridge 2 Jul
              Widemouth Bay 20 Jul
2003  - Cadgwith 4 – 11 Jun
               Connor Downs 1cal 1 – 2 Oct
               Last year’s Goldsithney bird to 20th Mar
               Millbrook: An adult photographed at Hounster Hill on 6th Jun
               Last year’s Penzance bird on 28th Jan - 11th Mar
               Penzance (2) first cal on 15th Oct with two to 24th Oct and one the end of the year
               Lamorna 24th Aug
               Land’s End/Sennen: A first cal on 19th Sep - 15th Oct, with (2) on 29th Sep - 4th Oct
               Millbrook Lake 6th Jun
               Perranporth 2cal on 6th - 23rd Jan
               South Petherwin 1cal 28th Oct
               Trevescan (2) on 24th Oct
2004  -  East Looe 9 Aug + 17 – 18 Aug
               Flexbury 12 Oct
               Fowey 6 – 16 Jun
               Helston 3 Jun
               Kuggar 30 Oct
               Land’s End 4 – 5 Sep
               Last year’s Penzance bird to 5 Apr
               Trevose Head 6 Sep

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2006 -

2007 -  St Just, adult flew towards Pendeen 26 July and relocated the next day at Lands end (see photos below)

2008 - Pendeen, 23rd March, 1st cal in bushes at entrance to Levant Mine by disused engine house. Hayle, 7th -21st July, adult seen on a few occasions in a private garden.

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1. 1st Cal, Lands End 2nd October ‘03 (photo: unknown)

2. Adult, Lands End 28th July ‘07 (photo:P.Freestone)

3. Adult, Lands End 28th July ‘07 (photo:M.Halliday)

4. Adult with European Starlings, Lands End 28th July ‘07 (photo:P.Freestone)

5. Adult, Lands End, July ‘07 (photo:R.Menari)