Devon Bird News

2 or possibly 3 Firecrest between riding stables and Churchwood Valley. Also 300 Woodpigeon and good numbers of Linnet and Skylark zipping ...

Seawatch 07.00 - 09.00 produced 150 Gannets, 106 Kittiwakes, and a Shearwater too distant to positively identify, either Manx or Balearic. B...

Caught up with the Yellow browed Warbler here today. Very elusive, showing briefly just a couple of times. Nearby from Preston Beach car par...

From fishing boat: masses of gulls following local trawlers, also 4+ Great Skua, 2 (juv/1w) Pomarine Skua, 1 (3s) Arctic Skua chasing Kittiw...

Afternoon- 1 Swallow over at 15.30.100+ Wigeon ,30 Teal, 1 Black T Godwit, 1 Lapwing,2 Water Rail. Went over to Beesands this am- the Red Ne...

Over-head migration: 6 Brambling , 133 Chaffinch, 1 Fieldfare, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Reed Bunting, 13 Siskin. Around Headland: 1 Wheatear , 2 ...

Colyford Common The two Water Pipits were showimg really well this morning on the edge of the new reedbed. Other birds seen included a Gr...

Quote from the Dawlish Warren website, Thursday, 4th Nov. (since edited!), 'a brambling in the treecreeper by the main pond'. This...

Slapton 4 Swallows, 7 Common Scoter, 50 Meadow pipits Pigs Nose Valley 1 Firecrest, half way down the track [from Nik Ward]

From the hide on Charleton Marsh mid-afternoon ( high tide ) were a couple Whimbrel with the Curlew flock flying around the bay and a Kingfi...

Went out to Start Point first light and walked down to the lighthouse. Although there was a fresh to strong west-southwest wind the road was...

Goodrington : 2 Black-necked Grebe Paignton seafront: Long-tailed Duck (showing well relatively close to shore)

Yellow-browed Warbler still present this afternoon behind golf driving range just W of YMCA it is nearly always in the dense tangled willow...

Great Grey Shrike still mid morning on Hawkerland Common and showing well [from Jean Millen]

Seawatching 08:45-12:30 (wind WSW4-6), fairly quiet (but it is November after all!): 202 Kittiwakes (34% juvs/1w), 88 Gannnets, 33 Auks (mo...

Lunchtime today: one Green and one Common Sandpiper at the Exe overspill by the canal basin. Also one Finnish and one Swedish-ringed Black-h...

One this morning 100 meters west of the summit of Gibbet Hill (near Brent Tor) at 08:30. Grid Ref: SX499811 [from Charlie Elder]

Broadsands: 2 Black-necked Grebes , 1 Red-throated Diver - also flying over 3 Curlew and 3 Wigeon. 4 Cirl Buntings on seed in back of second...

Long-tailed Duck still present at 1445hrs

1 black throated diver, 1great skua,1 manx shearwater. between 07:00- 08:00hrs