After almost 12 hours sleep (I must be getting old!) we awoke to drizzle and a slightly less windy day. Mousehole was our first port of call and after maybe 20 minutes Brendon said he had a good candidate for the Pacific Diver out by the bouy. After a few minutes I got onto it and yes it looked so good because it was one! My 3rd Pacific Diver in the UK and after missing the long returning Cornish bird from a few years ago it was nice to finally add it to my fledgling Cornish list. Yesterday’s eagle was number 200 but it’ll go down once some lumping of species on the British list comes in.
As I was watching the diver 6 birds flew into join it. They were 6 Black-throated Divers! The most I’d seen at the same time was 3 on a couple of occasions so this flock doubled that record. After a few minutes the 6 flew off SW and we headed off to the Hayle. Again not much was happening on Ryan’s Field but just past the hide I disturbed 2 crests from some bramble. In the brief view I had they both looked to have white eye stripes. I picked them up in a tree and sure enough they were Firecrests. A few seconds later a male Bullfinch zoomed passed us at eye level and onto the year list. With nothing of note on the estuary we treated ourselves to a lovely Philps pastie!
On our way home we popped into Dozmary Pool near Bodmin where at the far end was a pair of Ring-necked Ducks but the weather was so awful I watched them for about a minute before retiring back to the car. 83 species were seen over the weekend including 13 year ticks which took my year list up to 146.
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