Birds of the River Camel

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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.

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