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Bird Watching
Web Sites -
RSPB www.rspb.org.uk
www.btinternet.com/~lawson/camelbirds/camelbirdlife.html
See Also Multi Activity Holidays and Courses in Cornwall
North Cornwall.
The River Camel.
See also Cycling - Camel Trail.
Bird check lists can be obtained from and sightings reported to the Camel Trail & Wildlife Shop, Eddystone Road, Wadebridge.
Bird Information.
Sea bird passage off Pentire Headland especially autumn:
Shearwaters, Auks, Petrels, Divers, Terns, Sea Duck, Gannets, Skuas, Waders.
Wheatear, Peregrine, rare migrants in autumn.
Rumps Point:
To view Puffins off Moules Island in summer. Best vantage point to view sea birds passing.
Stepper Point:
In autumn Pipits and rare migrants. Red-throated divers.
Polzeath:
Hoopoe and other rare migrants.
Trebetherick Point:
Winter - Purple Sandpiper, Grey Plover.
Camel Estuary:
Low Water - autumn and winter Dunlin, Ring Plover, Grey Plover, Sanderling.
Sand Dunes:
Summer - Cettis Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Sand Martins occasionally breed.
Padstow:
Mediterranean Gull.
Padstow Harbour:
Turnstone, rare gulls.
Dennis Cove:
Moorhen, Kingfisher. Winter - Little Grebe.
Little Petherick Creek:
Important for wading birds - Greenshank, Redshank, Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Bartailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Little Egret roost.
Rock:
Wader Roost./ Winter - Eider, Divers, Slavonian Grebe.
Tregonce Flats:
Autumn and Winter - Red Breasted Merganser, Goldeneye, Brent Geese, Scoter.
Cant Hill:
High tide - Wader Roost.
Quarry:
Pipits, Spring - Wheatear.
Pinkson Creek:
Heronry, Curlew Sandppipers, Common Gull, Redshank, Greenshank, Little Egret, Little Grebe in winter.
Trevelver Shore:
Important high water roost for waders: Oystercatcher, Bartailed Godwit, Curlew, Cormorant.
Dinham Mudflats - Public Hide:
Main feeding area, superb viewing of gull roost and wader feeding.
Amble Marshes:
Summer - Breeding Shelduck.
Autumn - Spotted Redshank, Whimbrel, Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, Curlew, Black Tern, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Gulls, Dunlin, Bartailed Godwit, Blacktailed Godwit.
Winter - Huge flocks of Lapwing, Golden Plover and other Waders, Wigeon, Teal, Mallard, Pintail, Little Grebe, Goldeneye.
River Camel:
Blackthorn bushes winter - Redwing, Fieldfare. Shoreline - Kingfisher, Common Sandpiper.
Kingfisher, rare Gulls.
Wadebridge:Snipe, in Spring and Autumn bushes hold numerous species of Finches and Warblers.