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Saturday 24 March 2012

Exmouth

Orcombe Point - 4+ chiffchaff, 13+ meadow pipit (photo), 15+ linnet, 1 white wagtail and my first swallow of the year.
West Lodge - 1625 - yellow-browed warbler showed well and called a lot. Also 1+ chiffchaff.
Mudbank - 21 turnstone, 62 red-breasted merganser and 19 dark-bellied brent goose.
Yesterday - migrants included 1 fieldfare, 1 siskin and 1 redpoll sp on Orcombe and there was a second summer mediterranean gull in with 160 black-headed gulls off Mudbank.
22/3 - 2 pale-bellied brent goose off Mudbank.