The morning started promisingly with a firecrest with the tit flock where we are staying. We headed into the valley from the north side this time but again it felt quiet with less birds than yesterday. The coast path past Cape Cornwall was alive with dunnocks, robins, wrens and blackbirds but we couldn't manage to find anything else.
2 black redstarts in the cove at the bottom of Nanquidno were new for the trip but otherwise the valley was very quiet.
We stopped for a cream tea in St Just and headed back towards Cot Valley. A better route than dicing with death on the main road. This proved to be the right choice as we found a yellow browed warbler in pretty much the last garden in the town. It wasn't much but at least we found something. Amazingly we bumped into another bird, this time calling, almost back at the campsite. We didn't really need to do all the other walking!!
I couldn't resist a couple of relaxing hours seawatching at Pendeen in the afternoon. There wasn't an endless stream of big shears but pleasant none the less. Highlights were 2 Balearic shearwaters, my 1st in the UK for a VERY long time, 3 arctic skuas and 2 med gulls among the steady stream of gannet, auk and kittiwake. 2 chough were over the lighthouse for most of the time too.
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