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Friday 23 September 2011

Exmouth





Lifeboat Station - early am - 7 turnstone, 41+ knot, 29+ sandwich tern, 4 mediterranean gull, 1 grey phalarope and 2 juv sabine's gull still.

Orcombe Point - 0650 - reasonable overhead passage west but not much grounded -

6+ siskin, c100+ meadow pipit, c10+ skylark, 1 whitethroat, 1 wheatear, 2+ tree pipit, 1 grasshopper warbler (dung field), 1 yellow wagtail, 4+ chiffchaff, 50+ hirundine sp.
Mudbank - 1700 - c30+ pintail, 1 greenshank and fw yellow-legged gull (photo).