spotted flycatcher pair bonding with painted lady!
From the carpark of the Sportsman's Inn on the Devon/Somerset border I was watching a pair of spotted flycatchers darting out from the beech hedge pursuing insects; suddenly the male caught a painted...
View ArticleBowling Green Marsh & Exton
The female summer Long Tailed Duck showed well from Exton railway station platform this morning at 10:27hrs on the high-tide which i saw earlier with distant views from bowling green viewing platform....
View ArticleAveton Gifford
Hobby over my garden at nearby Venn. On estuary single black-tailed godwit & 380 herring gulls.
View ArticleManx Shearwaters Ilfracombe
Has anyone else seen/heard Manx Shearwaters flying over Ilfracombe or other parts of N D coast late at Night recently ? There's several flying around tonight, for the 3rd time this year. Its cloudy but...
View ArticleLittle Haldon Heath
Friday 19th June 21.45-22.25 3 separate pairs of Nightjars encountered both on the wing and perched. 3 males wing clapping. In addition, a further 5 birds churring from cover at just the three small...
View ArticleCommon Tern
While walking around Exminster Marshes a Common Tern appeared first over the canal then went for a tour of the marshes before heading south towards the river.
View ArticleBowling Green Marsh
Viewed over the late evening high-tide 1900-2145Hrs. The fs Little Gull dropped in at 2050hrs; 12-Mediterranean Gulls (3-adult + 2-2nd summer + 7-first summer); 1-Common Tern; 5-Sandwich Terns; c1500...
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Watched from 09:35 till 12:00 A quiet morning with 1200+ black headed gulls, 7 Mediterranean gulls( 1 adult, 1 2nd summer, 5 1st summer) 12 bar tailed godwits, 60+ black tailed godwits, 4 lapwing, 53+...
View ArticleWoodpeckers - South Brent
Came across 4 green woodpeckers making a lot of noise in one tree on the edge of the moor behind South Brent at 4pm today. Suspect some were juveniles.
View ArticleBudleigh Beach
4 Sandwich Terns feeding quiet close in to the beach early Sunday afternoon
View ArticleBowling Green
Watched 19.00 - 20.45 Nothing new - 37 Black Tailed Godwits, 2 Raven, 5/6 Med Gulls (1 Adult). Black Headed Gulls (mostly hiidden by foliage), Redshank, Swallow, Stock Dove, Wigeon, House Martin,...
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Lunchtime visit to the hide until about 1.45. A Little Gull showing well in the channel in front of the hide. It looked darker around the head than the bird I saw a week or so ago - perhaps a second...
View ArticleSouth Brent
Aish Ridge, South Brent mid morning very large gathering of mainly juvenile Herring Gulls on the ridge, well over 100 birds. Good numbers of Mistle Thrush moving around the area and a surprising...
View ArticleYellowhammer
Another first for several years in Gunswell Lane South Molton. Saw a Yellowhammer which landed on the telephone wires above the lane with a beak full of food so it must have a nest near by. Very...
View ArticleYellowhammers
Have been out in the countryside looking for Yellowhammers with no luck. While out with the dogs in Gunswell Lane South Molton in my own back yard so to speak I spotted a single Yellowhammer the first...
View ArticleDartmoor
A run around Dartmoor this morning above the Caton / Ashburton area around Babeny, bit of a cooling wind but plenty of small birds to be seen including, Stonechat, Meadow Pipits, (including youngsters...
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Four Nightjars on Trendlebeare Down with first churring at 9:20 and display flights inc.wing clapping right over our heads around 10pm - best ever views! At Emsworthy earlier 7 Mistle Thrush, Stonechat...
View ArticleWest Soar
Hobby hunting low over grassland and cereal fields. Good numbers of Dark Green Fritillaries plus Grayling, Gatekeeper & Ringlet now on wing.
View ArticleRiver Clyst
Birdguides reported a possible Hudsonian Whimbrel at 16.50pm left of the viewing platform. However when the first birder arrived at 17.15pm there were no birders on site. Just a Eurasian Whimbrel...
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