20th February 2016 (Cornwall)

First stop today was Longrock, Marazion, where we scanned for the pacific diver, which we failed to locate. However, we did have a distant Red-Throated Diver, 3 Great Northern Divers, and many Guillemots, Razorbills and Shags.

Great Northern Diver - Marazion

Rock Pipit - Marazion

Herring Gull - Marazion

We then scanned from Battery Rocks, Penzance, which failed to turn up any divers, but we did have singles of Purple Sandpiper and Slavonian Grebe.

Purple Sandpiper - Penzance

Slavonian Grebe - Penzance

A walk along the cliffs at Pendeen quickly produced 2 Choughs, though they always remained distant.

Chough - Pendeen

Another look off Marazion produced nothing of note. Walked along the footpath west of Perranuthnoe and picked up two very distant divers which I didn't manage to identify before I lost them. Continuing to walk along, I picked up the HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL as it flew out of a bay and lost view of it as it headed west past a point. Unfortunately, I couldn't relocate it or any other waders on the shore beyond the point. It was later reported at Marazion.

Perranuthnoe

Returned to Dozmary Pool on the way home. Had the 2 Goldeneye again, but despite increased numbers of Tufted Ducks on the water, we still couldn't pick out the lesser scaup.

Goldeneye - Dozmary Pool