STOP PRESS

DEVON BIRD NEWS has moved...find it HERE


Monday 31 January 2011

Otter Estuary - Otterton Sewage Outlet

A morning spent on the Otter Estuary found the following ...Sparrow Hawk, 10 Reed Bunting, 5 Red Breasted Merganser came in from the sea (four females, 1 male) and another male at Whitebridge, 3 Common Gull, 3 Med Gull. 3 Little Grebe. 1, Black Tailed Godwit, 30 Curlew. Out to sea a raft of c30 C.Scoter.

In the afternoon...good numbers of Divers off the coast from the Otterton sewage outlet including 3 Black Throated Diver, 10+ Red Throated and 1 Great Northern Diver, 2 Fulmar, 1 Razorbill, 2 Raven (one carrying nest material to cliffs).