Crownhill Down
Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Redstart, 3 Wheatear and 12 Mistle Thrush on a brief evening visit.
Rod Mudge
Lower Tamar Lake this morning.
1 Little Egret, 15 Coot, 2 Mute Swan, 7 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Jay, 2 Grey Wagtail, 1 Cormorant, c30 Swallow, 8 Moorhen.
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Saltram
Early this morning on the Plym opposite Blaxton Meadow 2 Great White Egrets with Little Egrets and Grey Herons. Several Cormorants, Common Sandpiper and Mandarin Ducks.
Wryneck – Bantham Beach
Wryneck seen in a shrub on the sand dunes close to beach carpark and gastrobus at 1245 hrs. Also yellow wagtail feeding close to cows in field.
Plym Estuary & Saltram
The 3 Great White Egrets still on Blaxton Meadow at hight tide. Also today, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 14 Oystercatchers, 15 Turnstones, 11 Greenshanks, 8 Dunlins, Common Sandpiper, 20 Cormorants, 21 Little Egrets, Green Woodpecker, 2 Grey Wagtails, 2+ Bullfinches & 2 Clouded Yellows.
North Devon Great Egrets.
4 Great Egrets on the Taw this morning. 2 in flight heading towards Chivenor & 2 on the sandbanks.
Velator reserve
Cycled along to the scrape this morning, again. And again nothing there, not sure the new drainage works have improved the conditions – it’s full of some green algae. However I noticed that the cattle have reappeared, and were idling over by the reserve. As I approached the reserve gate, they moved off a bit, and a single Cattle Egret flew up.
Honiton
Golden pheasant
Fremington Pill
3 Glossy Ibis at the Pill this morning 07.00 .
East Devon Golf Club, Budleigh Salterton
As per Paul Bray’s report, Ortolan Bunting seen again @16:00
East Devon Golf Club, Budleigh Salterton
13:00
Ortolan Bunting
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Crownhill Down
This morning on the Down: Chaffinches, Goldfinches, Linnets, Willow warblers at least 12 Mistle thrush and a Green Woodpecker. 3 Ringed Plover and Canada Geese on the TWL. Down along the Bridle path 2 Spotted Flycatchers.
Soar
Additions to Rob’s post today: Wryneck (briefly, in scrub adjoining the wood between mid- and east Soar), Swift, 40 Wheatears, 3 Whinchats, 6 Siskins, Sedge Warbler, 22 Whitethroats, 22 Chiffchaffs, 9 Blackcaps, 11 Tree Pipits, 2 Grey Wagtails, Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit, 4 Bullfinches, 2 Roe Deer & a Comma.
Pre-dawn, a Tawny Owl at Brixton.
Exmouth
orcombe point
20 +Yellow wagtails in the top fields with the cattle .
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Avon Dam
Thirteen red head Goosanders roosting at the Avon Dam this morning was the most there since March. Leg colour and facial pattern suggests a mix of juveniles and adult females.
Harleston by Slapton
2 Hobby over garden this pm.
Wembury
Migrants in the Wembury/Wembury Point area this morning included 5+ Ringed Plover, a Whimbrel, 5 Bar-tailed Godwits, 24+ Turnstone, 24 Dunlin, a Common Sandpiper, a Redshank, 4 Mediterranean Gulls, a Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Blackcaps, 4 Whitethroats, two Spotted Flycatchers and 2 Wheatears.
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Horsey & Braunton Marshes
This morning around high tide on Horsey 3 Great White Egrets.
Fortunately, Nigel who lives in Barnstaple turned up on his bicycle having cycled past the Linhay on the Inner Marsh Road & identified 9 Cattle Egrets amongst a herd of cows, so on my way home I took some photographs.The nearest one with the black bill is a juvenile.
East to Middle Soar
Significant hirundine easterly migration from 0800 to 0945 involving 600 Swallow, 15 Sand Martin & 390 House Martin with a further 170 on the roof of Middle Soar House. Also: 3 Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2 Tree Pipit, 21 Wheatear, 2 Whinchat, Grasshopper Warbler reeling at Starehole Ponds, 5 Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Spotted Flycatcher & 150 Linnet.
Tawny Owl on Bovey Heath
No Nightjars, but a Tawny Owl calling from 20.15 onwards
