Cornwall & unsocialable lapwing

Purple Sandpiper

View of the bay

Pasty time at St Just

Morning walk on a Sunday

Purple Sandpiper

Porthleven

Not many benches beat this view?

Turnstone

Song Thrush

Ringed Plover

This photo is a good summary of the weekend weather

With lockdown lifted we both fancied a trip to the coast and with a reported Sociable Lapwing in Cornwall we opted to head this way for a change of scenery. The Lapwing had been around for a few days but then hadn't been seen on Friday afternoon so it was no surprise there were no reports on Saturday so we headed to coast and did a walk at Bollatack where we saw our first Chough. Passing through the area there were numbers of Lapwing & Golden Plover in flight.

The weather was very mixed and that would be an understatement. A lunchtime pasty in the car warmed us before we headed to Mousehole which was very pretty. A dozen Turnstones were feeding in the harbour and there were good number of Lesser & Black-backed Gulls on the island.

We then drove round to Penzance and walked along the front, again sunshine, wind and rain continued but I did get to watch a dozen plus Purple Sandpiper, 2 Ringed Plover, a Black-throated Diver, 25 Common Scoter and more Turnstones. This rounded the day off nicely.

On Sunday we walked around the edge of Hope Cove in barmy winter sunshine. St.Micheals Mount looked particularly impressive the closer we got to it. A Black-throated Diver flew out of the bay probably given the extra activities taking place as it was so calm. There were huge numbers of Goldfinches all along the path having a feeding frenzy. From here we drove round to Porthleven where were found Mrs D's old family holiday home and lovely coffee and cake. Rock Pipits were the only bird of note. At 12 noon we set off north up the M5 only to get news the Lapwing had been relocated! Fading light would have made it impossible to get back so we cracked on towards home. Its been a fantastic year and we did have a fabulous weekend with plenty of laughs.