A walk up the track to Middleworth, Deancombe and then over the Narrator Brook to
Outcombe copse, returning along the edge of the moor by Roughtor Plantation and
Narrator Farm ruins, produced the following:
Redstart 3 singing males Middleworth/Deancombe
Blackcap 4 singing
Willow Warbler 5 singing
Chiffchaff 3 singing
Reed Bunting 1 singing Narrator Brook
Cuckoo 2 calling
Siskin 3 calling in plantation edges
Tree Pipit only one heard near Narrator Farm ruins
Buzzard one soaring over Roughtor plantation carrying a snake
also two Red Deer hinds near Middleworth, and a young Grass Snake on road
Some time spent searching the copses at Deancombe and Outcombe for Pied Flycatchers. None located with one box at Deancombe occupied by Great Tits
