Devon Bird News

Nice little flock of 10 Bullfinches along path from RSPB carpark to Turf, they were having a good feast on the buds. [Simon Thurgood] ...

Brixham Breakwater, 3 Iceland Gulls , 2 ad 1 1stW following trawler to breakwater only 1 ad came inside of breakwater 16:45. [Roy Willia...

Juv Iceland Gull (quite a pale bird) feeding over brown field (recently sludge sprayed) south of old School House just after turning off ...

West Lodge - 0800 - 8 goldeneye (including 3 drakes), 10 little egret, 5+ meadow pipit, 1 greenshank, c300+ dunlin and yellow-browed warble...

One, possibly two Dartford Warblers in song on the N Devon coast today. [Peter Liddle]

A quick walk along the Breakwater (3:10) produced 5 purple sandpipers and a single 1st winter Iceland gull that followed a trawler with abo...

After no sign all morning, Russ Eynon re-found the Yellow-browed Warbler around midday and I connected with it an hour later - upstream fro...

Three Goosanders on river 300m up from Totnes Weir this morning - one drake and two females.

Went searching for Matt's Iceland Gull this afternoon. Spent a couple of hours grilling the gulls but with no luck. However, the Long-ta...

Today and for 4 or five days previously I have watched a pair of Snow Buntings feeding not far from the water's edge in the Northam Bu...

On sea: particularly quiet today just 3 Black-necked Grebes and 6 Great Crested Grebes and 1 Common Scoter.                                ...

Seafront - A first-winter iceland gull on a rapidly disappearing sandbar this evening c1705 - 1715. Also 1 sanderling. On Maer Rocks 1 p...

On a falling tide: Imm. Bewick's swan still with mutes. Greenshank, 2 redshanks, 3 common sandpipers. 300 Black-headed gulls inc.2 with ...

During a walk around the perimeter of the southern marsh I was surprised at the number of wigeon spread out on almost every field. There mus...

A quick seawatch at lunchtime today produced 2 Black-throated Divers heading south-west passing close in to the headland at 1335hrs. Earlier...

I watched from the outer breakwater, the same two Iceland Gull's (Juv & Adult) follow the trawlers into the Bay. The first I picke...

Picked up two new Iceland Gulls at Brixham this evening as the small day trawlers (5 of them) came in to port late afternoon. the first a  ...

Malcolm had 2 whooper swans 36 mute swans 7 greylag geese and a ruff on the tarka trail near Heanton Court

1:00pm - 2 Bitterns and a Marsh Harrier . [Terry Lakeman]

14:30 Nothing exotic but 46 Dunlin; 2 Black-tailed Godwit; 1 Bar-tailed Godwit; 3 Little Egret; 3 Grey Plover; 4 Little Grebe and 1 redhead ...