Sunday, 5 February 2017

Divers and Grebes on the south coast

I spent the day checking St Austell Bay , Veryan Bay and Gerrans Bay . It was pretty good to be honest and I ended up with a nice variety of birds :

Gluvian

2 Grey Wagtail

St Austell Bay

33 Great Northern Diver
6 Black throated Diver
1 Red throated Diver
2 Great crested Grebe
3 Slavonian Grebe
39 Common Scoter
1 drake Velvet Scoter ( view from Polkerris )


Mevagisssy

1 adult Med Gull

Porthpean

4 adult Med Gull
1 Grey Wagtail

Hemmick Beach

1 Grey Wagtail

Caerhays

22 Med Gull ( 3,2,17)
2 Common Snipe


Veryan Bay

12 Great Northern Diver
15 Black throated Diver
1 Red throated Diver
3 Slavonian Grebe

Portholland

2 adult Med Gull
1 Porpoise

Gerrans Bay

39 Great Northern Diver
1 Black throated Diver
1 Red-necked Grebe
7 Common Scoter
1 Long-tailed Duck ( off of Portscatho )



Pendower

15 Med Gull
1 Whimbrel
1 Chough ( feeding in sheep field above the beach )
1 Grey Wagtail
1 Bottle nosed Dolphin

Portscatho

1 Whimbrel
1 Common Redshank
5 Dunlin
52 Turnstone
8 Med Gull ( 1,1,6 )
1 Cirl Bunting

Ruan Lanihorne

129 Wigeon
1 Great spotted Woodpecker


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