August 2009

1

Sooty Shearwater Berry Head; Arctic Tern Dawlish Warren; Green Sandpiper (7), Whimbrel (5) Appledore.

2

Red Kite Ilfracombe; Little Ringed Plover, Yellow-legged Gull, Swift (160) Dawlish Warren; Green Sandpiper (4) West Charleton Marsh; Sooty Shearwater Hartland Point.

3

Spoonbill Isley Marsh; Osprey R Yealm.

4

Green Sandpiper (12) Bishop’s Tawton; Little Tern Dawlish Warren; Osprey Lopwell Quay.

5

Garganey Bowling Green Marsh.

6

Aquatic Warbler Thurlestone; Wood Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover Colyford.

7

Little Ringed Plover Dawlish Warren; Osprey R Erme.

8

Little Stint, Wood Sandpiper Colyford.

9

Tawny Pipit Prawle; Wood Sandpiper (4) Seaton; Osprey, Wood Sandpiper (2) Bowling Green Marsh; Kentish Plover Dawlish Warren; Green Sandpiper (12) Bishop’s Tawton.

10

Little Gull Bishop’s Tawton; Osprey Powderham; Yellow-legged Gull, Balearic Shearwater (2) Dawlish Warren.

11

Wood Sandpiper Bishop’s Tawton; Osprey Kingsbridge Est.

13

Little Gull Berry Head.

14

Wood Sandpiper Exminster Marshes (2), Colyford Common (1); Spoonbill, Little Egret (29), Spotted Redshank (2) Isley Marsh.

15

Yellow-legged Gull, Arctic Skua Dawlish Warren; Yellow-legged Gull Braunton; Osprey Powderham; Spoonbill, Spotted Redshank Isley Marsh.

16

Curlew Sandpiper Thurlestone.

18

Garganey, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, Ruff Bowling Green Marsh.

19

Little Tern The Skern.

20

Osprey R Dart.

21

Roseate Tern Dawlish Warren; Yellow Wagtail (4) Seaton Marshes; Osprey Lympstone.

22

Ortolan Bunting Beer Head; Mediterranean Gull (44) Instow; Firecrest Berry Head.

23

Little Stint Dawlish Warren; Merlin Chagford; Arctic Skua Lundy.

24

Alpine Swift Colyford Marsh; Little Stint (3), Yellow Wagtail Dawlish Warren; Merlin Beer; Yellow-legged Gull Exmouth.

25

Long-tailed Skua Berry Head; Wryneck Ottery St Mary.

26

Alpine Swift Colyford Common; Pomarine Skua, Arctic Skua (3), Great Skua (3), Long-tailed Skua, Balearic Shearwater (14), Sooty Shearwater (17), Black Tern Dawlish Warren.

28

Long-tailed Skua, Sooty Shearwater (2), Arctic Skua, Great Skua Morte Point.

29

Wryneck Beer Head & East Prawle; Dotterel Dartmoor.

30

Spotted Crake Bradiford Reserve; Wryneck Beer Head and Slapton; Osprey (2) Powderham; Gannet (374), Common Tern (72), Manx Shearwaters (65), Sooty Shearwater (22), Balearic Shearwater (22), Common Scoter (12), Great Skua (7), Arctic Skua (3), Puffin past Start Point between 09.30 and 16.30.

31

Fea’s Petrel, Balearic Shearwater (21), Icterine Warbler Prawle Point; Wryneck Beer Head.

September 2009

1

Osprey Lopwell Dam, Warleigh Point (3); Spoonbill Barnstaple.

2

Wilson’s Phalarope Bowling Green Marsh; Yelkouan Shearwater (2), Sooty Shearwater (582), Kittiwake (324),  Balearic Shearwater (145), Manx Shearwater (88), Common Tern (50), Arctic Skua (50), Great Skua (25), Common Scoter (5), Arctic Tern (2), Storm Petrel (12 hr seawatch) Berry Head;  Little Gull (2), Storm Petrel, Grey Phalarope Slapton.

3

Roseate Tern Kingsbridge Est; Osprey (3) Exe Est; Wood Sandpiper Bishop’s Tawton.

4

Wryneck, Wilson’s Phalarope still present Exminster Marshes, Sabine’s Gull Hartland, Wryneck, Pied Flycatcher Lundy.

5

Grey Phalarope Wembury; Curlew Sandpiper (4), Osprey (2), Garganey Bowling Green Marsh; Osprey Shipley Bridge and Plym Est.

7

Wilson’s Phalarope Exminster Marshes; Sabine’s Gull (2) Berry Head; Common Scoter Frogmore Creek; Turnstone (2) Charleton Bay; Yellow Wagtail (20) Beer Head.

8

Little Gull Slapton; Slavonian Grebe Exe Est; Little Stint Kingsbridge Est.

9

Tawny Pipit Prawle.

10

Aquatic Warbler Dawlish Warren; Wryneck Lundy; Spotted Crake Bradiford; Osprey Braunton, Plymouth, South Milton Ley & Bowling Green Marsh; Swift, Swallow (5,000) Lundy.

11

Black Kite Dawlish Warren; Montagu’s Harrier Start Point.

12

Honey-buzzard South Milton Ley & Thurlestone; Osprey Taw/Torridge Est.

14

Osprey Kingsbridge Est and Plymouth City Centre; Little Stint (2) Seaton.

15

Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper Dawlish Warren.

16

Pectoral Sandpiper Seaton; Garganey Exmouth; Merlin, Hobby Prawle Point; Curlew Sandpiper (2) Bowling Green Marsh; Rose-coloured Starling Wembury.

17

Pale-bellied Brent Goose (3) Exmouth; Pectoral Sandpiper Seaton; Melodious Warbler Prawle Point.

18

Spotted Crake Bradiford; Short-eared Owl Exminster Marshes; Common Rosefinch, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest (2) Lundy.

19

Glossy Ibis (6) Seaton;  Rose-coloured Starling Wembury; Slavonian Grebe Exe Est; Spoonbill (3) Isley Marsh; Red-throated Pipit Northam Burrows.

20

Dotterel, Wryneck Bolt Tail; Red-backed Shrike Kingston; Red-necked Grebe Preston; Curlew Sandpiper Thurlestone; Montagu’s Harrier Soar.

21

Spotted Crake Bradiford Water; Red-breasted Flycatcher Lundy; Spotted Redshank Fremington.

22

Dotterel Bolt Tail; Wryneck Prawle Point; Yellow-browed Warbler, Sooty Shearwater Lundy.

23

Firecrest Berry Head; Little Gull Kingsbridge Est; Little Stint Instow & Dawlish.

24

Rose-coloured Starling Barnstaple; Crossbill (60) Burrator.

25

Ortolan Bunting Lundy; Glossy Ibis Thurlestone, South Milton Ley & Salcombe; Osprey Stover & Paignton.

26

Common Rosefinch Lundy; Wryneck Torquay; Glossy Ibis Thurlestone; Osprey Plym Est.

27

Osprey Stover & Plym Est; Dotterel Bolberry Down; Ring Ouzel Ingra Tor.

29

Wryneck Bolt Tail.

30

Osprey R Otter; Little Gull Dawlish Warren.