Left home at 7:30 for three nights near Land's End, Cornwall. Ten buzzards en-route and an awful coffee at Starbucks near Bristol. First stop was Hayle for a pastie, but with the tide out, little was seen on the estuary. Next stop Sennen to take the kids surfing. I had a bash around the cove but saw little. We then went lookinng for the Buff-breasted Sandpiper in fields "south of Sennen". Couldn't find it or any birders but did manage a couple of Chough. Then I realised that south was actually north and whilst looking up the grid reference on my OS map, got a flyover Lapland Bunting! When we'd worked out where to go it was easy! Surprised by how small it was with accompanying two hundred or so Golden Plover (never seen them in a flock with other species before.) Several flight views too as flock got spooked on occasion.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper by Tom
After a quick look around Porthgwara (which had apparently had lots of goodies - we arrived late and saw nothing apart from a few Red Admirals), we headed to our pub-hotel , the Ship, at Mousehole.
