Devon Bird News

2 firecrests, 2 bramblings, nuthatch (good record for here) and a green sandpiper today Also - 2 spotted redshank at goosemoor yesterday [f...

Stand down everyone !!! Photo posted on Birdforum this evening of a Dunnock with a pure white throat in a garden in Exmouth today. As s...

Waxwing feeding in hawthorn opposite sewage farm gate [from John Lusher] I do hope this is the first of MANY photos of Waxwing in Devon t...

Cattle Egret at Darts Farm this afternoon. Single goldeneye and Red-breasted merganser and 2 Little grebes at recreational playing fields, ...

Merlin, Golden Plover 72, Chaffinch 120+, Brambling 4+, Skylark 140+, Linnet 25+ and Snipe 6. And a very cold NE wind. [from Steve Cox]

Bitterly cold morning - a Jack Snipe flew into the marsh at 8.15. Only duck on the water 6 Shoveler & 3 Wigeon . 1 Black T Godwit &...

Picture of the lapland bunting at Berry head taken yesterday morning. Also a roe deer there, flushed by dog walkers inside the north fort - ...

The Lapland Bunting still late morning by the cafe in the North Fort and showing to just a few feet.

Orcombe Point - 8am - bitterly cold - skylark c100+, lapland bunting 1 , golden plover 22, snipe 4, meadow pipit c30+, siskin c12+ Blackhill...

From boat today: a Manx Shearwater - very unseasonal, especially as winds have been fron the north or north-east - should be off South Ameri...

Pictures of some of the Chiffchaffs at Broadsands and Clennon Valley today. Managed to get some great footage of the tristis Chiffchaffs d...

Walk round the Bay this am produced 13 Ringed Plover , 8 Turnstone, 1Chiffchaff (on coast path),9 Teal on sea then flew west. Thurlestone Ma...

At least three Hawfinches at Ide this morning, also Chiffchaff , 5 Siskin , with a Golden Plover and 80 Redwing over. Couldn't find the...

Another cold and frosty morning. The marsh has been breached again at Mansands (right). But this does bring birds from the vegetation out in...

tristis Chiffchaff Broadsands Broadsands: 7 Black-necked Grebes, 1 Red-throated Diver. 1 tristis Chiffchaff in marsh, 14 Cirl Buntings on...

Thursday 25th -Sunny but NW wind and cold on the Warren. Rewarded with the drake Scaup feeding in Shutterton Creek on dropping tide &...

Lapland Bunting eventually located at the exact same time my child became hysterical, which was handy. Showing well down to 8 foot at time...

A nice frosty stroll from Scabbacombe Head to Froward Point this morning. First, 4 Golden Plovers in a field near Coleton Camp carpark. A Da...

Brief visits to the seafront and Mudbank Lane (and looking into the sun's glare most of the time) early afternoon produced 5 Eider at th...

approx 9 Cirl Buntings on seed in back of 2nd car park, 3 Reed buntings and tristis Chiffchaff still in marsh - calling regularly. (The Lap...