Where better to start September than Porthgwarra? A pleasant stroll around Porthgwarra with Liam featured two
Pied Flycatchers, a pair of
Chough, a
Garden Warbler, two
Tree Pipits, three
Wheatears, a
Swift, four
Ringed Plovers, a
Dunlin, three
Fulmars, two
Little Egrets, a
Peregrine, two
Ravens, a
House Martin, 80
Swallows, a
Willow Warbler, a
Rock Pipit and three
Grey Wagtails. At least eight
Buzzards started to make use of the thermals late morning, as did the roaming flock of 21 reintroduced White Storks, although these u-turned after deciding that a jaunt to Scilly wasn't such a great idea after all.
We popped in to Stithians Reservoir to twitch a
Cattle Egret, which was showing nicely, along with the juvenile
Wood Sandpiper, a
Common Sandpiper, five
Curlews and two
Lapwings.
On the way back east, I stopped at Barton-on-Sea, where it was too late in the evening for the Icterine Warbler to show but I was gobsmacked to hear one or two Water Rails calling from the vegetation on the beach.
