Coverack: You wait over two months for the next tick and then two come along in two days! Coal Tit, annual but uncommon here, brings up the landmark of 70 species. (Dan Beadle)

31st July

Coverack: Nuthatch briefly on the peanut feeder for 69, a garden tick. (Dan Beadle)

24th July

Hayle: A chattering Linnet flying over the house puts me on 48 species. (Martin Lenney)

Dobwalls: At long last, number 46. A Little Egret flew over, towards the river in the valley below our garden. (C&J Duffy)

29th June

Illogan: My second new sighting this week and only my second this month, but probably the best of my lockdown sightings, Barn owl. This is only my 3rd sighting from the house in 7 years. This one however passed within 5  metres of my lounge widow, crossing the front garden 3 metres above the ground. So please update my lockdown score to 46. (David Williams)

26th June

Hayle: Coal Tit calling from a pine tree close by and possibly my first ever Kestrel in the area bring me ever closer to the half century. New total 47. (Martin Lenney)

Lostwithiel: Lovely male Siskin puts me up to 47. (Eddy Mayhew)

Coverack: Not a new species, but certainly a very bizarre sighting – juv Cormorant dosing on the driveway! I’ve already had flyover Cormorant, but being at least 0.75 miles from the sea and with only a very small pond, I didn’t expect one to land! After preening and yawning outside the garage for 30 mins, it the waddled onto the front doorstep before finding its reflection in a car door and appearing very confused; staring, snapping and peering at itself! The bird even stayed when the window cleaner came, later walking off down the road, but it seemed fit and well and could stretch its wings easily. 

Cormorant – Dan Beadle

Cormorant – Dan Beadle

14th June

Little Kirland: Finally 50 with a female Grey Wagtail which flew up from the stream (just not visible from my garden) onto a neighbour’s roof, calling. Maybe the other feathered residents in the stream will show themselves too? (John Macadam)

12th June

Polbathic: Correction: I’d already seen Blackcap, so it was 52, not 53. Further to previous correction, the arrival of Black-headed Gull now confirms the total at 53. (Andy Blonden)