Around the Exe
Exminster Marsh (Lions Rest corner) good numbers of Lapwing, Golden Plover, Brent and Canadian Geese, the three smaller species were very flighty and kept taking to the sky giving some stunning views....
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Drake Goldeneye off Topsham Rec 12.10 on the dropping tide. Quite close in but very windy. Also approx 20 R B Merganser in a group fishing by Topsham Ferry.
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6 Goosanders On Stover Today,4 Male 2 Female, Also 2 Male Pochard, 9 Tufted Ducks 8 Males 1 Female & 1 Great Crested Grebe. The Kingfisher Flew In Front Of The Hide Twice A Nice Visit!!!!!!
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A female-type Black Redstart seen this morning on the roof of our 4-storery flats 30 metres from the coast-path. One has been reported on the sea-front by Pebbles B&B occasionally this winter, and...
View ArticleBlack Redstart Sighting
Black Redstart photgraphed around my car parked in Chillington, South Devon today 26th January 2015. Male.
View ArticleCattle Egret Exminster Marshes
Cattle Egret mobile in fields either (northern) side of railway bridge. Showing well. Cackling Goose in usual place Matford Marsh. Cattle Egret
View ArticleBroadsands and Brixham
A sweep of the southern part of Torbay today produced the following: Broadsands: 1 Red-necked Grebe, 36 Great Northern Divers, 21 Great Crested Grebes, 9 Common Scoter. Also 1 Firecrest. Brixham: 12...
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Short eared owl hunting over field parrelel to river at 3pm.Viewed from customers house while working,well kind of.
View ArticleStover Lake
A cool but dry sunny morning at Stover Lake, Several Common Snipe sunbathing in the northern marsh. A single Kingfisher and 2 Water Rail squealing. Other wildfowl included 6 Tufted Duck, 2 male...
View ArticleR.Taw off Pottington and Penhill Marsh. 1145 - 1245.
Shelduck 73; Goosander 3(2m,1f); Dark-bellied Brent 368 (& then I stopped counting); Sanderling 27; Dunlin c250; Lapwing c2000; Golden Plover c2500 and 1 adult Mediterranean Gull.
View ArticleExminster Marshes
The Black Brant was in with a large flock of Brent Geese this lunchtime, close to the main lagoon. However, they flew off towards the estuary when a Peregrine put everything on the marsh up at about 2...
View ArticleSoussons & Venford Reservoir,Dartmoor
Soussons: Just 2 Crossbill found in the plantation - very scarce this year and poor cone crop. Also Woodcock, Kestrel, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Raven. Venford: Woodcock at...
View ArticleAround the Teign Estuary - Lunchtime
Highlights: A single Great Northern Diver off the seafront with numerous Shags. Also a single dolphin. 35+ Curlew just east of Flow Point with a male Red Breasted Merganser in the estuary close by.
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Short eared owl seen quartering over the Exminster marshes this evening - I saw it looking north from the high point on the canal path where the Topsham ferry stops, so on the meadows north of the...
View ArticleRiver Plym
Black necked grebe showing well with 4 little grebes at low tide from Laira Bridge this afternoon. Upriver were 2 male and 3 female red breasted mergansers and a great crested grebe. Single greenshank...
View ArticleDevon Bird Atlas Launch today Friday 29th
Don't forget the launch of the Devon Bird Atlas at Stover Country Park today Friday 29th January. The official launch will be at 10.30am but the book will be available for purchase or collection...
View ArticleBowling Green Marsh this morning.
Lots of Wigeon, Teal, Shoveller, Redshank, Curlew and Black Tailed Godwits. Avocet 200+. Also Spotted Redshank, Pintail, Merlin (thanks Dave!), Snipe, Gadwall and one Bar Tailed Godwit. Raven over....
View ArticleBowling Green Marsh update
Lunchtime visit until about 2.15. Fairly quiet from the hide, but the Spotted Redshank was in its favoured place just to the right of the viewing platform with a Greenshank. Also a pair of Stonechats...
View Article29-01-16 Black-necked Grebe
29-01-16 A single Black-necked Grebe by Laira Bridge in Plymouth along with a little Grebe, also very near by was a Great Crested Grebe
View ArticleExe estuary
Short eared owl seen again same place as yesterday about 3pm, and a diver, I think great northern but visibility was terrible, off the red rock at Dawlish Warren. I think there were more further out...
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