Cornwall (11-17th July)

Family holiday in Cornwall staying right on the sand on Porthmeor in St Ives - just down from St Ives Tate. Right at the start of the seawatch season and family stuff precluded any real birding, but just setting up a scope in the sitting room managed to pick up daily totals of 10+ Kittiwake, 15+ Shag, 200+ Manx Shear, 10+ Gannet, 3-4 local Rock Pipit including a couple of recently fledged juvs and a few Common Terns. Also had 4 Guillemots on Sunday.