Bird Notes for June - July 2010

Bird Notes for June - July 2010

Julia Harris, Assistant County Recorder & Data Manager

This listing appears will appear in The Harrier for August 2010. Most of these records are unchecked and as yet unauthenticated.

June 2010

1

Great Northern Diver, Red-throated Diver Dawlish Warren.

2

Arctic Skua, Slavonian Grebe Dawlish Warren; Spoonbill Axe Estuary; Red Kite Bideford; Nightjar (3) Haldon.

3

Spoonbill Seaton.

4

Spoonbill (3) Pottington; Yellow Wagtail Colyford.

5

Balearic Shearwater Dawlish Warren; Spoonbill Axe Estuary; Great Northern Diver Lundy.

6

Little Shearwater, Bee-eater, Puffin (16) Lundy.

7

Little Tern (3) Exmouth; Red Kite Aylesbeare

8

Woodchat Shrike Start Point.

9

Subalpine Warbler Lundy; Hoopoe Kentisbeare; Roseate Tern Dawlish Warren; Slavonian Grebe Cockwood.

10

Little Tern (2), Mediterranean Gull (6) Dawlish Warren; Swift (large nos all day) Seaton; Wood Sandpiper Black Hole Marsh.

11

Red-footed Falcon Exminster Marshes, Little Shearwater Lundy; Little Tern (2) Dawlish Warren.

13

Black Stork Jurston; Red-footed Falcon Exminster Marshes; Red Kite  Buckfastleigh.

14

Red Kite Sidmouth; Arctic Skua, Mediterranean Gull (16) Dawlish Warren.

15

Red Kite Sidmouth; Spoonbill Exminster Marshes.

16

Red Kite Tiverton and Bellever.

17

Wood Sandpiper (2) Thurlestone; Turtle Dove Plymouth; Turtle Dove (3) Haldon; Little Shearwater Lundy; Red Kite Trentishoe Down.

20

Hoopoe Payhembury (present for over a week).

22

Bee-eater Woodbury Common; Red Kite Uffculme.

23

Storm Petrel (6) Hartland Point;

26

Little Shearwater Lundy; Red Kite Crediton.

27

House Finch (till 12 July)East Prawle.

28

Gull-billed Tern (2) Bowling Green Marsh.

29

Gull-billed Tern (2) Topsham; Spotted Redshank (2) Bowling Green Marsh.

30

Gull-billed Tern (2)  Slapton Ley; Wood Sandpiper Tawstock.

 

July 2010

1

Turtle Dove Braunton Burrows; House Finch East Prawle.

2

Little Tern Dawlish Warren; Gull-billed Tern Bowling Green Marsh.

3

Arctic Tern Dawlish Warren.

4

Balearic Shearwater Orcombe Point.

6

Red Kite Leedon Tor.

7

Quail Chumleigh.

8

House Finch East Prawle; Gull-billed Tern Exton.

9

Quail Kingswear; Crossbill (40) Wistlandpound Reservoir; Gull-billed Tern Bowling Green Marsh.

10

Balearic Shearwater, Roseate Tern Dawlish Warren; Gull-billed Tern Exton.

11

Green Sandpiper Bradiford; Little Gull Skern; Gull-billed Tern Exton; Yellow-legged Gull Exmouth.

12

Balearic Shearwater (3) Prawle; Quail Scabbacombe Head; Spotted Redshank (2) Bowling Green Marsh.

14

Yellow-legged Gull (2) Axmouth.

15

Spoonbill Pottington; Alpine Swift Berry Head; Long-tailed Skua, Balearic Shearwater (22), Arctic Skua (3), Great Skua,  Storm Petrel (4) Start Point; Roseate Tern, Arctic Tern Orcombe Point; Spotted Redshank Bowling Green Marsh.

16

Roseate Tern Exmouth.

22

Yellow-legged Gull Black-Hill Quarry.

24

Scaup, Roseate Tern Exmouth; Turkey Vulture (escape) East Prawle.

26

Scaup Slapton Ley.

31

Little Gull Skern.