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Rare Bird Alert for CORNWALL – 6th March 2008

March 6, 2008

A LITTLE BUNTING remains for its 4th day 6 miles SE of Truro and south of Portscatho at Porth Farm NT Reserve. Park in the designated car park and walk back along the road for a short way and take the track north for just under half a mile to the stile to view the stubble field at SW 867 329.

A EURASIAN HOOPOE remains for an 8th day 2 miles SE of Land’s End at Polgigga just west of the B3315 and opposite the small duckpond in gardens at ‘The Vineries’. Please respect the privacy of residents. Other early migrants include the odd Sandwich Tern, a trickle of Sand Martins, a White Wagtail and a few Barn Swallows.

Some 20 or more CATTLE EGRETS remain, with 18 between Drift Reservoir and Sancreed in the Treganhoe Farm area and singles at Stithians Reservoir (close to the Golden Lion causeway at the NW end) and SW of Wadebridge at Hay.

The EURASIAN BITTERN is still present at Stithians Reservoir, at the southern end (view from the hide or the causeway), with 6 RED-BILLED CHOUGH on The Lizard and 2 at Land’s End..

On the Hayle Estuary, a 2nd-winter GLAUCOUS GULL and up to 8 Mediterranean Gulls remain, whilst nearby, a mobile and elusive WATER PIPIT remains on the small pools at St Gothian’s Sands LNR (north of Gwithian). At least two juvenile ICELAND GULLS remain in the area, commuting between Drift Reservoir and Newlyn Harbour, with another WATER PIPIT wintering on the beach by the Red River Mouth, Marazion.

At Pendower Beach, Red-necked Grebe, 5 Black-throated Divers and 3 Great Northern Divers remain offshore, whilst Mount’s Bay (Penzance/Marazion) has up to 5 wintering Slavonian Grebes, 2 Black-throated Divers and 5 Great Northern Divers. Some 37 Purple Sandpipers can be seen at high tide at Penzance Harbour Jubilee Pool.

In terms of passerines, up to 4 SIBERIAN CHIFFCHAFFS remain at Long Rock Pool, Marazion, with a YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER at Lower Nansloe Farm (in willows by the entrance track) and a HUME’S LEAF WARBLER at Tehidy Country Park, Camborne.

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