Prawle Point
Saturday: Seawatch in SSW going SW force 4-5 mainly rain and mist with some dry patches.6am to 2.30pm (TM and PM) 5 Bonxies,5 Great Northern Divers,16 Puffins, 2 Storm Petrels,2 Sandwich Terns, c 30...
View ArticlePied Flycathers
Arlington Court nest boxes. Pair of Piec Flycatchers in and out if box with food. Not sure if these are monitored by the NT or anyone else? Great to see.
View ArticlePomerine Skua at South Huish Marsh
Still on the marsh today. Did get up and fly about a little bit, but mostly sitting still. Lovely day, bit of wind, lots of martins, swallows and some swifts. Distant shot of Pom Skua Distant shot,...
View ArticlePossible sighting of Lammergeier - Postbridge
Lammergeier near Postbridge, Dartmoor today at 16.30 good views of bird being mobbed by buzzard over wooded area and a few minutes later over open moorland flying south. Laurel Miller.
View ArticleBearded Vulture
Seen at approximately 4.30pm on B3212 on western side of Bellever Forest being mobbed by Buzzards and Crows . After a minute of so of watching my wife just above tree level it drifted off eastwards,...
View ArticleBelated news of Smew on Lundy, 14 May
Further to the male Smew in North Devon on 20 & 21 May (see below), news has just reached us of a male Smew reportedly seen on Pondsbury, Lundy, on 14 May. If confirmed, this is almost certainly...
View ArticleProbable Lammergeier Moving North 11.45am May 23rd
Just spotted a very large raptor, quite high up, with high probability of it being the Lammergeier drifting slowly north just east of North Tawton, very few wing flaps, mainly soaring/gliding, with...
View ArticleDartmoor
Dartmoor this morning still unseasonably cold with windy conditions at times, but that did not stop birders sprouting up all over the moor after reports of the Lammergeier being seen earlier in the...
View ArticlePlym Estuary & Saltram
Visited today from mid morning till late afternoon. River Plym. Female Mandarin with 2 chicks, Mute Swan, Corvids & Pigeons. Plym Estuary. Cormorant, about 50 Herring Gull, 2 Shelduck & 6...
View ArticleWarren house area Dartmoor
Whinchats and the odd Wheatear seen plus three Spotted Flycatchers and four Cukoos in flight.
View ArticleLarge raptor NOT Lammergeier!
Apologies, but the large raptor seen near North Tawton today was NOT the Lammergeier as this was seen on Bodmin moor during the day, so obviously flew west. Any suggestions? Anyone seen any other large...
View ArticleMonday - 7 Red Kites
Colin Reed reported seven Red Kites circling over Bagborough (nr Crediton) at 4.00pm yesterday.
View ArticleYarner Woods
Apparently the Lammergeier had nipped across the border for a pasty, so decanted to Yarner Woods. Plenty of Pied Flycatchers and Redstarts. When leaving had 7 Red Kites high above the car park. Pied...
View ArticleMeeth Quarry, 24.5.16
A trip to Meeth Quarry today also turned up this pleasant surprise: 2 Red Kites, c. 09:45.
View ArticleBerry Head Fulmars
Had a spare hour to kill so took my camera up to Berry Head. I love the way Fulmars look sat on their nests. Spotted a busy Rock Pipit, lots of male Common Blue and also a Small Blue, which was too...
View ArticleRed Kite
At last a Red Kite over our village at Stoke Rivers. It has been in the area of South Molton and Filleigh but we have never seen it. Today it flew over the lane as we walked down towards Orswell....
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