Exe estuary (Powderham-Turf) this lunchtime. Very quiet, but included Stonechat (m), Meadow Pipit (c.5), Black-tailed Godwit, juvenile Wheatear, 4 Black Swans and a count of 43 Mute Swans.
07.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sparrowhawk just swooped into the garden and caught a House Sparrow. It would have eaten it there and then save for an inquisitive Herring Gull scaring it off clutching the sparrow.
14.07.2025 10:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Aylesbere this am. Looking at a beautiful male Yellowhammer when two Dartford Warblers turned up close by, in the same bush. A Willow Warbler and male Stonechat calling nearby. Plenty of Linnets there too.
26.06.2025 13:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The House Martins are back over Alphington, Exeter, lots of them.
30.04.2025 11:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wood Sandpiper stood on small island at Exminster Marshes RSPB
A distant male Garganey swimming away with Curlew. Shelduck & Shoveler on water at Exminster Marshes RSPB
Two hours of pre-work dawn birding & three of the loveliest Spring migrants appeared.
-Wood Sandpiper (pic)
-Garganey (pic)
-Lesser Whitethroat (no pic)
Exminster Marshes RSPB #devonbirds
25.04.2025 12:06 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A couple of entries into my field notebook the fantastic looking Red-necked Grebe still at Broadsands #Torbay and finding a female Serin at #BerryHead today. Some photos of it later..
22.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 39 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 BREAKING: Turtle-dove hunting season reopens!
The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause.
This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink.
More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...
01.04.2025 12:55 — 👍 130 🔁 75 💬 14 📌 23
South Devon Birder/Twitcher
Devon/Somerset birder & amateur naturalist.
Bird lifelist 356 (UK 240)
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Mid Devon. Moths,Birds and Rugby Union supporting Exeter Chiefs.
Loves Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies and wildlife in general. Family, Football and Rugby a must. Oh and a lot of Star Wars.
Old-fashioned birder. Member of The Irregulars. Lover of Wild places and wildlife. Reliably twenty years behind the times.
Also on Twitter {yes, it's still that to me} There's a blog out there somewhere, too...
Husband, Dad, conservationist, EV convert, allotment gardener. supporter of local music. Views are my own
Local patch birding in Somerset, Devon & Dorset & anything to do with natural history. Retired & now trying to do my little bit to help the natural world.
Birder | Naturalist | Amateur Wildlife Photographer | Dartmoor local patch | Plym/SE Cornwall 10km patch
Love nature and the outdoors. Volunteer at RSPB Arne. Recently moved to North Devon so exploring new birding sites. Trying to create a wildlife garden in a new build sterile plot!
Backyard birder and oft beyond, poetry scribe & writer of "Letters to Penweth".
Aston Villa supporter issues, podcast & website. #AVFC
Birder mostly Beer Head/ Seaton. East Devon.
Birder from Devon. Plover Enthusiast. Book Worm 📚
Interested in all #wildlife, but #seabirds, #raptors and #cetaceans are my favourites. Many hours spent #seawatching at home and abroad.
(Header: Balearic and Manx Shearwaters 05/08/25)
Mainly birdwatching in Devon/Kent
Volunteer for The Green Runners; low carbon running & birding in Devon, mostly in squares.
Running in Squares - my blog for the OS
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Trying to be the best person I can be. Reader, listener and birder
Plymouth based birder and general nature lover
