The outstanding discovery of a Chough was the clear highlight, an unexpected second site record after a bird around Langstone Rock on 13-14 October 1984. With 55 breeding pairs in Cornwall in 2024, today's bird is likely a non-breeding wanderer from further west, the origin of the first record is unclear with the species extinct in the south west between 1973-2001.
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| Chough - Lee Collins |
The bird was found foraging in The Bight moving to the golf course and then dunes for around half an hour before being heard and seen flying west over the Entrance Bushes.
Its arrival overshadowed the presence of the year's second Roseate Tern, which joined 160+ Sandwich and seven Common Tern on Finger Point over both high tides. Wader counts included 150+ Redshank, 72 Whimbrel, 55 Dunlin, 29 Ringed and a Grey Plover, eight Black and five Bar-tailed Godwit, five Greenshank, a Common Sandpiper and a Turnstone.
Elsewhere two Stock Dove were in the Railway Saltmarsh, two juvenile Kestrel sparring over Greenland Lake and a lone Swift overhead.
Year list addition:
157. Chough
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