June 2009

1

Gull-billed Tern, Little Gull Bowling Green Marsh; Slavonian Grebe Cockwood; Red Kite Topsham; Black Kite Exeter; Spoonbill Teign  Est.

2

Red Kite Paignton.

3

Long-tailed Skua Exminster Marshes; Slavonian Grebe Exe  Est.

6

Red Kite Okehampton; Sanderling (3) Broadsands.

7

Osprey Erme  Est; Red Kite Honiton; Puffin (5) Lundy; Common Scoter (11) Bideford Bay.

8

Little Stint Seaton.

10

Puffin (13) Lundy.

15

Red Kite singles over Lympstone, Shute and Tiverton.

16

Red Kite (2) Kingsbridge; also singles over Okehampton and Seaton.

18

Yellow-legged Gull Axe  Est.

19

Osprey Powderham; Mediterranean Gull (5) Broadsands; Puffin (11) Lundy.

20

Osprey Powderham; Slavonian Grebe Exe  Est.

21

Quail (2) Soar; Little Tern Dawlish Warren.

22

Red Kite nr Bradworthy.

23

Red Kite Tiverton; Green Sandpiper Bradiford Water; Redshank (2) Tottiford, Dartmoor.

24

Red Kite Lydford.

25

Mediterranean Gull (3) Northam Burrows.

27

Woodchat Shrike Lundy.

30

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Braunton Burrows.

July 2009

1

Mediterranean Gull Pottington; also Turf and Axe  Est; Green Sandpiper Dawlish Warren.

2

Little Ringed Plover Bowling Green Marsh.

3

Slavonian Grebe Dawlish Warren.

4

Balearic Shearwater (2) Dawlish Warren.

7

Roseate Tern (2), Yellow-legged Gull Dawlish Warren; Osprey Powderham.

9

Roseate Tern (6) Dawlish Warren; Red Kite Newton Abbot.

10

Roseate Tern (7), Little Tern, Arctic Tern Dawlish Warren.

11

Mediterranean Gull (17) Instow.

13

Marsh Harrier Kingsbridge Est.

14

Manx Shearwater (304), 24 Balearic Shearwater (24), 4 Sandwich Tern (24), Puffin (2), Mediterranean Gull (2), Storm Petrel, Whimbrel, Yellow-legged Gull Berry Head.

15

Crossbill Lundy; Balearic Shearwater (3) Prawle Point; Yellow-legged Gull (2), Puffin, Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, Great Skua Berry Head.

18

Storm Petrel (2), Pomarine Skua Hartland Point.

19

Cattle Egret (juv), Little Ringed Plover Colyford Marsh; Roseate Tern (4), Arctic Tern (2), Arctic Skua Dawlish.

20

Osprey Powderham.

21

Gannet (652), Manx Shearwater (167), Common Scoter (30), Balearic Shearwater (26), Black-tailed Godwit (20), Puffin (17), Common Tern (13), Sandwich Tern (13), Whimbrel (5), Arctic Skua (3), Sooty Shearwater, Yellow-legged Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Great Skua all seen during 12-hour watch at Berry Head.

22

Spoonbill, Passage House Inn.

23

Albatross sp. (possibly Black-browed) 14 miles out to sea from Salcombe.

24

Little Tern (5) Skern.

25

Crossbill (7) Stover CP.

26

Mediterranean Gull (17) Instow; Sooty Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater (3), Great Skua, Pomarine Skua Dawlish Warren.

27

Alpine Swift Mansands; Cattle Egret Colyford Common; Slavonian Grebe still at Cockwood.