park parakeets
a good show this morning 12 ringneck parakeets flying around park together this morning
View ArticleRillage Point to Watermouth
06.25 to 08.30, overcast & murky, ESE4: First Tree Pipit of the spring (for my patch) flying over calling. Strong eastbound passage of 225 mainly adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls, plus 2 Common...
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Three Whimbrel and seven Common Sandpipers at Passage House at 9am. Nearby two Wheatears on the racecourse and at least seven Willow Warblers at Hackney Marshes.
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the short eared owl just below m5 flyover at 6.45 am this morning, showing very well but mostly distant from canal footpath
View ArticleBerry Head
Didn't get to the headland until late morning and then just for 1.5hrs but obviously a bit of a fall: 22 Willow Warblers, 9 Chiffchaff (presumed migrants rather than territorial birds), 2 Redstarts...
View ArticleExminster marshes
At 6.00 pm the short-eared owl was quartering the fields north of Topsham Lock and then flew south to hunt around the lagoon. Several chiffchaff and willow warbler singing. A reed warbler near the...
View ArticleClearbrook
Clearbrook today 2 Wheatears,good numbers of Willow warblers and the odd chiffchaff,Meadow Pipits and Stonechates.
View ArticleSouth Brent
A good days birding in the garden and locally around South Brent, this morning gave five Chiffchaff, three Sky Larks and six Yellow Hammers on the outskirts of the village. A garden area bird watch has...
View ArticleExminster SEOs
Watching from the viewing platform on the tow path opposite the lagoon tonight between 7.00 and 7.30 pm an SEO flew in from the right being mobbed by gulls. Once it had shaken them off it proceeded to...
View ArticleTopsham
Popped into Bowling Green Marsh on the way home from work. Just one gull on the marsh - an adult Bonaparte's gull, presumably the bird from Dawlish. Watched from 7pm to 7:45pm during which time it...
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Two Sandwich Terns, 1 or 2 Black Redstarts and a female Wheatear.
View ArticleBerry Head
Bright clear morning and consequently not much moving, overhead: 1 Tree Pipit, 1 House Martin, 3 Swallows, 6 Jays in tight flock over headland, 5 Rooks, 3 Collared Doves on the move. Around the...
View ArticleExminster marshes
A glorious morning - warm, sunny and calm. Over 65 shelduck on the pools. There was clearly a fall of migrants over-night. At least 5 singing sedge warblers and one, possibly two, reed warblers. A male...
View ArticleBowling Green Marsh
The Bonaparte's Gull still at Bowling Green Marsh this lunchtime in the company of 3 Black-headed Gulls. Still there when I left at 1.50pm. Also at least 1 Whimbrel with the Curlews.
View Article11.04.16 Short Eared Owl M5 Exeter
On way back in the car from Bristol last night at 7.15pm saw single owl species unknown flying over M5 at Exminster flyover. Can only assume it was same Short Ear Owl(s) reported by other poster.
View ArticleWrafton scrape
Wrafton Pond this morning, despite beautiful sunny calm weather and plenty of airborn insects, had no hirundines at all during our visit. Previous reports on the wildfowl present need not be repeated...
View ArticleExeter and Dartmoor
A walk along the Exeter canal from Countess Wear to the City centre this morning gave no less than 25 species, six Blackcap (5M ~ 1F) Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler, two Sand Martin, numerous singing...
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