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Bird Notes

Bird Notes for February & March 2008

Julia Harris, Assistant County Recorder & Data Manager

This listing appears in the Harrier for April 2008. Most of these records are unchecked and as yet unauthenticated. Please send sightings for April and May to the Assistant County Recorder by 31 May.

February

1 Firecrest (2), Mediterranean Gull (5) and Red Kite Seaton; Falcated Duck still at Countess Wear; Spoonbill Ernesettle Creek; Cattle Egret (4) still at Kingsbridge, also Saltram Park (4) and Northam Burrows (4).
2 Velvet Scoter (13) off Slapton and a single at Seaton Hole; Velvet Scoter (9), Black-throated Diver, Red-throated Diver Downend; Great Grey Shrike still at Trew Plantation; Iceland Gull (3), Mediterranean Gull (6) Axmouth; Ring-billed Gull, Scaup Slapton Ley; Balearic Shearwater (2) Exmouth, plus 4 past Berry Head where also a Pomarine Skua and Fulmar (3); Long-tailed Duck Beesands Ley; Water Pipit (2) R. Caen.
4 Black-necked Grebe, Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver (4) Broadsands; Water Pipit R. Caen.
5 Black Redstart Tiverton and Beer (2); Starling roost Okehampton (100,000+).
6 Lapwing (800) R. Taw; Ring-billed Gull, Velvet Scoter (10) off Slapton; Slavonian Grebe (4), Great Northern Diver (3), Eider (2) and wintering Surf Scoter Dawlish Warren.
7 Glaucous Gull Seaton; Black-throated and Red-throated Diver past Orcombe Point; Great Northern Diver Exe Est; Black-necked Grebe (4) Broadsands.
8 Black Redstart Exmouth; Black-necked Grebe (2) Slapton.
9 Black-throated Diver, Black-necked Grebe (7) Goodrington; Yellow-browed Warbler Plymouth.
10 Red-throated Diver (3), Great Northern Diver nr Seaton; Black Redstart (3) Beer Beach; Firecrest Aveton Gifford; Balearic Shearwater and Purple Sandpiper (15) Start Point.
11 Gadwall Dawlish Warren; Firecrest Central Park, Plymouth.
12 Spoonbill (7) Isley Marsh; Black Redstart Okehampton.
13 Great Grey Shrike below Warren House Inn; Green Sandpiper Colyford; Siberian Chiffchaff Broadsands.
14 Purple Sandpiper Westward Ho!; Water Pipit (3) Braunton.
16 Kittiwake (400) Lundy; Black-throated Diver Baggy Point; Fieldfare (700) Hendom Cross, nr Huntsham; Cattle Egret Bere Alston.
17 Velvet Scoter (13) Downend; Falcated Duck still at Countess Wear.
18 King Eider Appledore; Cattle Egret (3) Powderham; Firecrest Yelverton.
20 Velvet Scoter Beer; Great Grey Shrike Trew Plantation and Warren House Inn.
21 Cattle Egret Otter Est; Black-necked Grebe (2) Broadsands.
22 Cattle Egret (2), Slavonian Grebe Dawlish Warren; Black Redstart Tiverton.
23 Swallow Exminster Marshes; Spoonbill (4) Isley Marsh.
24 Yellow-browed Warbler Bovey Tracey; Cattle Egret (5) Bideford; King Eider still on Taw/Torridge Est; Velvet Scoter (13) off Beesands.
25 Yellow-legged Gull Axmouth; Firecrest Bystock Ponds; Black Redstart Newton Abbot.
26 Guillemot Dawlish Warren.
28 Cattle Egret (4) Kingsbridge Est; Sanderling (22) Dawlish Warren.
29 Sand Martin Isley Marsh; Balearic Shearwater and Velvet Scoter Seaton; Brambling (20) Ivybridge.

March

1 Velvet Scoter Beer; Hen Harrier Cornwood; Sandwich Tern (3) Dawlish.
2 Red Kite Clayhidon; Velvet Scoter (8) Downend; Black Redstart Pottington.
3 Black Guillemot Otter Est; Firecrest Dawlish.
4 Scaup (3) Slapton; Sand Martin (6) Bowling Green Marsh.
5 Great White Egret R. Taw.
6 Sand Martin (6) at Kingsteignton.
7 Red Kite Axminster; Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoter (9) Slapton.
8 Sand Martin (5) Topsham.
9 King Eider still on Taw/Torridge Est.
10 Arctic Skua, Pomarine Skua, Fulmar (32) Dawlish Warren; Great Skua, Pomarine Skua, Manx Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater (2) past Berry Head; Cattle Egret Axmouth.
11 Sand Martin (6) Newton Abbot.
12 Velvet Scoter (11) Beesands; Black-necked Grebe (3), Red-throated Diver Broadsands.
13 Balearic Shearwater Beer; Ring-billed Gull Axe Est; Sand Martin Lundy.
14 Sand Martin (30), House Martin (6) Seaton Marshes; Black-necked Grebe Preston and Goodrington; Black-throated Diver Paignton; Slavonian Grebe (5), Great Northern Diver Dawlish Warren.
15 Sand Martin Seaton (120), Slapton (100+) and Wrafton (70); Purple Sandpiper (5), Wheatear (10) Prawle Point; Black Redstart Sidmouth; Cattle Egret (6) Warleigh Point; Wheatear (3), Sand Martin (4) Dawlish Warren; Wheatear (3) Hope’s Nose; Sandwich Tern, Wheatear (6) Seaton.
16 Firecrest (3) Princetown; Wheatear (3) Swincombe Valley; Greylag Geese (2) Dawlish Warren; Black Redstart, Wheatear (3) Lundy.
17 Red Kite Dawlish Warren; Long-eared Owl Ashford; Rough-legged Buzzard Orcombe Point; Black Redstart Brixham; Velvet Scoter Beer.
18 Red Kite Dawlish Warren; Little Ringed Plover, Garganey Exminster Marshes.
19 Red Kite Buckfastleigh; Black Redstart (2) South Huish Marsh.
20 Swallow Whitford, R. Axe; Osprey R. Axe.
21 Yellow-legged Gull Exmouth; Cattle Egret (4) Bideford; Black-throated Diver Dawlish Warren; Swallow, Sand Martin (2) Seaton Marshes.
22 Swallow Tiverton; Firecrest Ottery St Mary; Swallow, Wheatear Seaton Marshes.
23 Black Redstart Seaton; House Martin (6) Exeter Canal.
24 Scaup (3) Slapton Bay; Long-tailed Duck Start Bay; Velvet Scoter (7) Beesands.
25 Osprey Thurlestone; Cattle Egret (3) Fremington Pill; Hoopoe, Sand Martin (25), Chiffchaff (10), Green Sandpiper Colyford; Yellow-browed Warbler Plymouth.
26 Firecrest Princetown; White-fronted Goose Axmouth; Little Ringed Plover, Sandwich Tern (3) Seaton.
27 Osprey Seaton; Swallow, Little Ringed Plover Bowling Green Marsh; Long-tailed Duck, Velvet Scoter (7), Common Scoter (40), Sandwich Tern (2) Torcross; Hen Harrier Bursdon Moor; Knot (42) Exmouth.
28 Balearic Shearwater, Manx Shearwater (34), Velvet Scoter (14) Seaton; Little Ringed Plover Bowling Green Marsh.
29 Pomarine Skua, Great Skua (3), Manx Shearwater (101), Great Northern Diver, Kittiwake (700) Dawlish Warren; Great Skua (5) Balearic Shearwater (4) Seaton; Balearic Shearwater (2), Manx Shearwater (452), Puffin (22) Berry Head; Swallow (3), House Martin, Sand Martin (40) Wrafton.
30 Garganey (2) Slapton Ley; Balearic Shearwater, Manx Shearwater (215), Black-throated Diver, Sandwich Tern (3) Prawle Point; Firecrest (2) Beer.
31 Glaucous Gull Tamar Lakes; Hen Harrier Bursdon Moor.

Below are some of the overwintering/long-stay birds still present at the end of March:
Great Northern Diver Lundy; Surf Scoter Dawlish Warren; Long-billed Dowitcher Exe Est; Falcated Duck Countess Wear; King Eider Taw/Torridge Est; Cattle Egrets still present at several locations.

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