Mike Langman

River Dart cruise on African Queen. Guide Mike Langman. @clennonvalley.bsky.social
Yellow Flagged Curlew C5 over a red band on left leg. On right leg is an orange (?) ring. I'll do a bit of digging, it may be a headstarted bird.
2. Peregrine overhead.
3 + 4. Lots of Buzzards over the river.

A few places going on my rescheduled, very last, River Dart 'Osprey cruise on Monday 6th October at 11.30am cruise lasts for 4 hrs cost £43 .
Tuesdays Cruise: Osprey, Kingfishers, Hobby, Peregrine, Great Egret, Little Egrets, Harbour & Grey Seals Stunning scenery etc..etc..!

Back from Mallorca - now struggling to identify this very plain looking Lizard - it doesn't seen to match the descriptions of the two true lizards found on the island.. Any one help with identity..? It was probably about 8'' or more in total length. it looks more like an Algyroides - introduced?

Grey Phalarope

Sabine's Gull

Sooty Shearwater

European Storm Petrel

Brilliant pelagic trip yesterday led by @clennonvalley.bsky.social on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham.
Grey Phalarope
Sabine's Gull juvenile
Sooty Shearwater
European Storm Petrel

White-beaked Dolphin

White-beaked Dolphin

White-beaked Dolphin

Rare treat ! White-beaked Dolphins seen on a @clennonvalley.bsky.social pelagic trip on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. These White-beaks were just off Berry Head. @Saunders

Berry Head 12:30-17:00, first 3h unwisely spent in hide with 0 sightings other than a bloxworth snout (📷), then 90 mins at the quarry where @clennonvalley.bsky.social found me a bonxie (year ✅), plus 25+ balearics, 15+ manxie, 1 c tern, 1 guille, 70 kitt, 6 fulmar, & cmn dolphins
#devonbirds

I think 92 were counted in Cornwall just a few hours earlier...?

After watching Ospreys on my guided Dart 'Osprey' Cruise and telling the group to look out for possible Glossy Ibis's this happens!! I estimated 70 but there were 91! perhaps the Wadebridge flock? at least 3 Ospreys, Kingfisher Mandarin Ducks, Common Sandpipers too.

Looks like I'm going to cancel my guided Dart Osprey cruise tomorrow, rescheduling for Friday am for a 0930hrs start from Kingswear or Dartmouth several of the original trip can't make the Friday so I have several vacant spaces of interested please message me ASAP £43.

Looks like I'm going to cancel my guided Dart Osprey cruise tomorrow, rescheduling for Friday am for a 0930hrs start from Kingswear or Dartmouth several of the original trip can't make the Friday so I have several vacant spaces of interested please message me ASAP £43.

Berry Head 06:45-18:00
14 Great Shearwater, 3 Cory's Shearwater, 1 Sooty, c200 Balearic, c340 Manx, 28 Arctic Skua, 3 Bonxie,72 Sandwich Tern, 27 Common Tern (+8 'commic').
Also 5 Yellow Wagtail over first thing. #devonbirds #ukbirding

Yellow-legged Gull

Common Dolphin

Manx Shearwater

Common Terns

Some of the sightings from the pelagic trip led by @clennonvalley.bsky.social on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham.
Yellow-legged Gull
One from a pod of Common Dolphins
Manx Shearwater
Part of a flock of Common Terns
Other birds seen:
Balearic Shearwater, Black Tern, Gannets, Kittiwakes

3 Ospreys seen fishing on the Stoke Gabriel stretch of the river Dart #Devon this evening. Also 1 Kingfisher, 1 Whimbrel, 24+ Curlew, 5 Redshank.

A couple of great cruises with @KellysheroDavid out into Lyme Bay fist day: 300+ Balearic Shearwater next day 30+! Manx Shearwaters, Black Terns, 1 Caspian Gull, 3 Yellow-l Gulls, or so, Arctic Skuas, 300 + Common Tern, Arctic Terns 12+ Com Dolphins & a flock of Black-t Godwits!

LYME BAY PELAGIC Tomorrow 6hrs from BRIXAM: Two places have just become available on my 6hr Lyme Bay pelagic cruise tomorrow starting at 2pm, contact me ASAP if anyone is interested £78 per place.

There was a very big feeding frenzy building after 7.30 about 1-1.5 miles off which complicated the counts so I ended up only counting passage birds a>S a bit closer in and not getting involved in the feeding. But hardly any Manxies in those passage counts!

Berry head seawatch 6am-8.15am: 308 Comic Terns, 13 Common & 24 Sandwich Terns, 7 Arctic Skuas, 177 Balearic S then a lot of rafting (160+) and feeding, 4 Manx, 13 Med Gulls, 300+ Kittiwake 120+ Gannets, 7 Fulmar & 29+ Common Dolphins. Plus 18 Autumn Ladies Tresses Orchids

I lead a fantastic Coast & River cruise from Dartmouth yesterday evening; 19 Grey, 7 Harbour Seals, 8+ Com Dolphins, Arctic Skua, 400+ Kittiwakes inc French ringed bird, Gannets, Sandwich Terns, 3 Kingfishers, 27 Curlew, 2 Common Sandpipers, Peregrine, Little Egrets. Calm seas!

Also a grim sight of presumed dead Grey Seal, you can see the rope around the tail so probably entangled and drown

Not many Prickly Stick insects in our garden trees in #Torbay this year but here’s a decent size one today.

I found a Lesser Emperor Dragonfly yesterday at Clennon Lakes #Torbay seen from the viewing platform on lake 1. Photographer Paul Snell got a few shots - I’ve cropped them heavily here. Still plenty of Small Red-eyed Damsels on the floating vegetation too.

Details here: mikelangman.co.uk/guided-cruis...

Coast and river guided wildlife cruise 10th Aug, fantastic weather. A Sunfish was perhaps the highlight but Porpoises, Balearic & Manx Shearwaters, Peregrine, Kingfisher, Egyptian geese both Grey and Common Seals seen. Still a couple of places on Friday 5pm (4hr) on Friday.

1978 is a New National record Jake, old one didn’t last long, and a shore based count is probably more accurate. At Start only 5 Balearic Shearwaters showing they are not moving through. I estimate there are 2500-3000 in Lyme bay at present based on some of the at sea and land-based counts.

Berry Head 08:00-16:30
Count after @clennonvalley.bsky.social left was 685 so a total of 1,978!!
Also on top of Mike's counts another 284 Manx, 6 Arctic Skua, 1 Sooty, 1 Euro-storm, 1 Prob. Wilson's S (13:55), 2 Bonxie.
Also saw Mike's Yelkouan Shearwater!
#devonbirds
#ukbirding

I've got a couple places on both my guided Coast and River wildlife cruises on African Queen Dartmouth from Kingswear (or Dartmouth if you prefer) on Sunday 10th August 1pm - 5pm and the evening cruise Friday 15th August 5pm - 9pm. For details see: mikelangman.co.uk/guided-cruis...

That’s just a short walk from my old home in Potton! In about 1989 I found a lingering Monties Harrier close to Beeston it hunted over a big area but was well twitched!

29/7 a great morning @ #BerryHead highlights: finding Long-tailed Blue, over 1100 Balearic Shearwater, 24 Manx, 1 E Storm Petrel, 2 Arctic & 3 Pomarine Skuas, 21 Med Gulls, 150+ Common Dolphin, 7 Harbour Porpoise and 2 Roe Deer that almost said hello to me at the point and a leaping Thresher shark!

Great record these days Bill!

Some pictures from the trip from Tom Wallis including some of the many Common Dolphins, Balearic shearwater and the ‘puffling’