Tuesday
19th January fresh SE Cloudy, cool wind
Left
The Mad hatter bed & breakfast with a packed lunch from pauline
and her good wishes.
Heading
for Penzance I stop on the causeway alongside the Hayle estuary, see
the spoonbill again and find a common sandpiper.
Onward
to Long Rock car park where two knot flew past me heading east
along the beach and a raven joined some crows nearby.
No divers to see I cycle to Jubilee Pool, Penzance
to look at the large flock of purple sandpipers, twenty eight
of them and turnstones there. I just love the way the latter walk
right past you if you stand still enough.
There's a close
black-throated diver on the sea and I get soaked whilst
filming it as a large wave crashes over me.
To
Newlyn Harbour next, seeing a razorbill not looking too fit in
the surf on the way. Three great northern divers are actually in the
harbour enjoying the relative calm compared to the surge outside the
walls.
I
decide to go along a pathway beside the Penzance Boating Pool and see
a small bird go into a privet hedge. Pishing, a very smart firecrest
comes out six feet from my head! Brilliant, one of my favourite birds
and it is now on the Year list.
The
Green Year list now stands at 132, fourteen ahead of where I
was at this time last year.
12.76
miles 628 feet elevation up 476 feet elevation down
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