Devon Bird News

From a fishing boat off Start Point today we saw: 5 Puffins , numerous auks (mostly Guillemots), 4 Common Terns, 20+ Manx Shearwaters, 6 Bon...

A calm & quiet day but still with some surprises. On Thurlestone Marsh this am a male Tufted Duck ( this is not a regular visitor), 25 T...

Had a quick look around the marsh early this evening and found much to my delight a drake Garganey ! Also a number of Sand Martins as well ...

A pair of Red grouse flying over Birch tor today. Also Soussan's valley [below Bennets cross], resounded to the song of willow warblers,...

5pm - Mudbank Lane - 270+ pale-bellied brent goose . Also 3 dark-bellied brent still, 8 red-breasted merganser and 11 whimbrel. We always ...

Arrived late at Prawle after spending time watching 4 Hares running in and out of the road into fields near Chivelstone Cross,at one stage o...

5 Broad-bodied Chasers emerged and flew this afternoon (earliest reported in Britain this year), despite almost no sunshine. Over 25 Large R...

Otter Estuary / Budleigh Seafront Seems as if the Bonaparte's Gull has departed. Only 2 Black-headed Gulls on the estuary this mornin...

An adult and juvenile Dipper on the River Walkham yesterday. [Tom Wallis]

Numbers a bit slim, but a few nice arrivals (06:10 - 08:30) 1 Grasshopper Warbler , 1 Tree Pipit , 2 Yellow Wags , 4 Willow Warblers, 4 Ch...

A couple of pics of the Bonaparte's Gull taken yesterday at midday

First Common Sandpiper of the year on the rocks, in the bay - 1 1w Med Gull, 5 Wheatear, 7 Whimbrel, 22 Manx S'water, 1 Turnstone. South...

Osprey up the valley this evening from the direction of Mansands, past Southdown then north over Paignton, 6.55pm.

Whilst successfully looking for the Bonaparte's Gull this morning a Common Sandpiper was also seen nearby. There had also been a repor...

Following heard singing: 4 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat and 1 Sedge Warbler. 94 Shelduck, 5 Grey Plover, 3 summer-plumaged Dunlin a...

Ringing today produced 5 Willow Warblers , 3 Chiffchaffs , 8 Blackcaps , 2 Reed Warblers and 4 Sedge Warblers , along with some resident sp...

Male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker today - photo by Simon Thurgood

Seawatching 0645-0715hrs; 5 Puffin (also 4 later from top of headland), 158 Gannets, 22 Manx Shearwaters , 1 Little Egret. Migrants arou...

In the drizzle this morning from 08.30 to 09.30. Two common sandpipers, 4 whimbrel (included two feeding on the fields near the viewing plat...

7 Puffin , (including one nice group of 3), 14 Manx shearwaters and 3 Common Scoter south between 8.30-9am. Lots of birds in the bushes, 1...