Exe estuary (yesterday 09-10-2015)
A look around the Exe estuary with Tony. Powderham mid-day showed a Kingfisher around the pond near the lay-by area in front the castle and moving across to the railway steps a bit further along the...
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Lunchtime visit to the hide until about 1.55. Most unexpected bird was a female Mandarin that spent its time towards the back of the marsh towards the left hand side, often in the channel that leads...
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Wigeon flying around beach with 5 feeding on mud banks; first seen this autumn
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A Ruff flew in from Topsham direction, feeding by last pool on the right with 22 Black-tailed Godwits and 25 Lapwings. 5 Chiffchaffs in willows at Topsham ferry and Water Rail calling from reeds there.
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12 Common Buzzards, 8 Ravens and a Kestrel in the air together - one of the buzzards resembling a pale-phase Booted Eagele, a trap for the unwary!! Also5 Stock Dove, 50 House Martin & 40 Swallow....
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watched from the hide 15:00 till 17:45 The female mandarin duck showed well in front of the hide, an exceptional count of 119+ pintail with birds still dropping in as I left the hide , 110+ dunlin , 1...
View ArticleFunny gull
Discussion over the photos on birdforum went through a few options before landing in consensus of aberrant Black-headed Gull. One poster had photos of several other individuals of similar plumage...
View ArticleExmouth - off Imperial Rec Ground
On receeding tide 0830, BLACK BRANT, 6 Pale-bellied Brents and the Cackling Goose (courtesy of Matt Knott). The Pale-bellieds were feeding on the right of the flock (seems their favoured place),...
View ArticleRiver Caen toward the estuary about 11.30am
Quick 30min jaunt along the river bank with the dog. LT Tits, Greenfinch, Goldfinches, Kestrel, Stonchat, Cettis (heard not seen - as per usual) Little Grebe, gulls, corvids, lots of Meadow Pipits,...
View ArticleInstow-Isley Marsh
2 Spoonbill on beach near the oil jetty, then flushed to Isley Marsh. Also Wheatear, Kingfisher, 2 Buzzards, Meadow Pipits, several Teal and Wigeon, stacks of Curlew, plus on the Tarka Trail a few...
View ArticleShipley Bridge to Avon Dam 10/10/15 9.00 to 13.00
Dipper showing well on river where there are large flat slabs of stone in the river bed providing good feeding platform for this hungry Dipper! A Grey Heron was perched in a tree a little way up...
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watched from the hide 16:00 till 17:45 Pintail numbers continue to rise with 140+ among 200+ wigeon, 908+ black tailed godwits is the highest count this Autumn, 1 male juv Ruff, 1 spotted redshank, 25...
View ArticleShaldon
Yellow-browed Warbler showing well this morning (though silent) in The Ness, along coast path c.100m north-east of new scout building in open area with sycamores. Also a Firecrest.
View ArticleHarford Moor birds
Redwings this morning in amongst the bracken, Five birds flew up from Addicombe valley. Couple of snipe lurking in th bracken - not where I expected them to be as well as several stonechats flitting...
View ArticleEast Soar and Stare Hole
East Soar and Stare Hole early am. Fairly quiet with best birds a Firecrest in the Willows below East Soar Farm, a Whinchat by the car park and a Golden Plover overhead.
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My day got off to a not very great start when I got to the carpark to find I had no binoculars! So I wasn't too hopeful of finding too much in the scrub with a x32 'scope. In the field next to the...
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watched from 15:15 till 18:25 The highlight was a YELLOW BROWED WARBLER found just after 16:00 with Martin it only showed briefly in the corner just to the right of the gate to the viewing platform ,...
View ArticleRedwings
I have just (9.10am) seen a party of 10/12 high flying Redwing heading over the Torridge estuary towards Northam Burrows.
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