STOP PRESS

DEVON BIRD NEWS has moved...find it HERE


Tuesday 22 February 2011

R.Taw off Pottington Ind Est and Bradiford Reserve

07:50 - 09:30

Very high tide at 08:45

21 Snipe on the saltmarsh near Pottington sewage outfall.
4 Little Grebe paddling up river in line astern.
c250 Dark-bellied Brent and c90 Shelduck off Penhill Marsh.
8 Wigeon on the river.
35 Redshank; c50 Dunlin and c40 Oystercatcher on the concrete bank.

Bradiford Reserve.
5 Gadwall; 6 Wigeon; 1 Little Egret; 7 Black-tailed Godwit; c25 Teal and c150 Curlew in next field with 12 Canada Geese.

Barn Owl hunting in area of the smallholding, opposite Ashford Garden Centre at 08:40. It flew off towards the sewage works when disturbed by rabbiters and lurchers on the Tarka Trail. It returned at 09:10 being harassed by a Magpie and Crow.