Devon Bird News

Have been away this week on grandparenting duties- there is nothing worse than being 200 + miles away when news comes through of a patch fir...

Mid morning walk from Countisbury to Foreland point in strong easterly conditions. Highlight was a Red Kite seen over the point heading east...

Watched from 10:00 till 13:00 A nice find was a drake Garganey on the scrapes viewable from the canal bank path by fishermans car park alon...

Battled against strong easterly wind at Soar early morning, with only a Garden Warbler to show for it. So headed for Slapton Ley where a Mar...

Malcolm Shakespeare called earlier to say he had seen the Cattle Egret fly in to the high tide roost at Isley this morning with 2 Little Egr...

[05:00-08:30] Hoped to find the Cattle egret but no sign, just a greenshank and a curlew sandpiper at Home Farm. Between the jetties large ...

Four White Storks seen from Willand at 8.40 flying east. Also a Red Kite flew over Cullumpton Tesco at 14:30. [David O'Leary]

Bob Burridge had 4 White Storks fly over the centre of Kingsbridge mid afternoon yesterday, apparently losing height as they headed towards ...

3 Red Kites over Bicton Lake at 17.45 today. They spent around 10 minutes circling, mobbed by corvids, then flew off north east. [S...

16 members of the of  DBWPS enjoyed a memorable walk above the Dart with good views of Wood Warblers, Pied Flycatchers and Redstarts .  A ...

Red kite circled then slowly drifting west over Kevicc school in Totnes. This is a first for me in Devon.

Visited home Farm in the hope of seeing the Black-winged Stilt reported yesterday. No success there but a Cattle Egret was seen from the hid...

A few birds ringed this morning included three very juvenile Robins, a Whitethroat, 2 Blackcaps and 3 more Reed Warblers, a Woodpigeon, 2 ju...

BUDLEIGH JOURNAL: Nothing quite like being gripped off on the local patch by the local paper! Been away for abou...

Great White Egret again 0815hrs this morning, then dropped into the 'back' of the marsh and as such not viewable?

0600-0830hrs: at 0610 a fly over Serin dropped into the bushes just behind the Coastguards station and Artillery Store, it stayed until 075...

Just received the attached photograph from a friend who spotted this Osprey eating a fish off Higher Lane, Axmouth at about 3pm on Monday 21...

Geoff Taylor reports a Black-winged Stilt on pond 3 at the Gaia Trust's Home Farm Marsh Reserve, on the southern shore of the Taw Estua...

Great White Egret on the second pool at Thurlestone Marsh this morning feeding in the open. (H & J Huggins). Hopefully photos and mor...

No further sign of the Common Rosefinch this morning.