@exebirder.bsky.social
Exe estuary birder
Lovely Viv and well captured 👍
27.07.2025 06:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 Spotted Redshanks (moulting), 2 Spoonbills, 2 Green Sandpipers, 12 Greenshank and 7 Whimbrel were the highlights on #BowlingGreenMarsh over the pm high tide
22.07.2025 18:58 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good to see you also Richard.
20.07.2025 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see these 2 adult Curlew Sandpipers on #BlackHoleMarsh today. Also 2 Common Sandpipers and several nesting Sand Martins with thanks to @HelenHannon
for taking me 👍 + 3 Kestrels hunting over #ColyCommon #SeatonWetlands
3 Spotted Redshank (summer plumage), 6 Mediterranean Gulls (adults), 2 Greenshank, Pintail (male) from the hide + Spoonbill and Great Egret from cycle footbrige on #RSPB_BowlingGreenMarsh over the morning high tide with @vivthesetter.bsky.social
01.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grasshopper Warbler reeling from last eveing with @vivthesetter.bsky.social
10.06.2025 09:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great views and best yet of Grasshopper Warbler seen reeling this evening with thanks to @vivthesetter.bsky.social for taking me 👍
09.06.2025 19:42 — 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0It should have been the highlight 😂
31.05.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A nice trip out today to see Cuckoo being mobbed by mippets was the highlight with Yellowhammer, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Siskin, Nuthatch and Kestrel family being fed within the nest with @vivthesetter.bsky.social
31.05.2025 15:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Good trip out today with @vivthesetter.bsky.social to see Great Northern Diver, c40 Little Terns, 2 Ringed Plover and Wheatear at #FerryBridge + Little Owl at #Portland + c30 Common Terns at #RSPB_Lodmoor in #Dorset
13.05.2025 17:54 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Singing Nightingale and Garden Warbler in #Dorset today with @vivthesetter.bsky.social
06.05.2025 09:22 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great views from the pair of Black-winged Stilts displaying at times on #BlackHoleMarsh #SeatonWetlands this evening.
05.05.2025 19:57 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White-spotted Bluethroat, Temminck’s Stint, Glossy Ibis, Ruff, Crane and Garganey were the highlights on a great trip to #WWT_Slimbridge today with @vivthesetter.bsky.social @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social
04.05.2025 18:23 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
4 Hobby, 30+ Swift, 10+ House Martin, Red Kite low over marsh, 2 Egyptian Geese and 17 Cattle Egrets with cattle, 3 Sedge and 5 Reed Warblers on #ExminsterMarsh + 24 Whimbrel around #Turf today
28.04.2025 14:28 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great scope views and record shot of the Broad-billed Sandpiper whilst looking directly into the sun at #GoldcliffPools #Gwent with @vivthesetter.bsky.social late pm and a lifer for me ✔️
27.04.2025 21:07 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My first Cuckoo and Redstart of the year at #Emsworthy + Tree Pipit, Pied Fly and Willow Warbler at #Yarner in today's sunshine on #Dartmoor
11.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Long-billed Dowitcher, Spotted Redshank, 2 Knott, 11 Greenshank, 4 Spoonbills, Marsh Harrier, Red-breasted Merganser, Swallow and Sand Martin were the highlights on #RSPB_BowlingGreenMarsh 11am over the high tide.
03.04.2025 13:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pied Flycatcher and Swallow (my first of the year) along with Siskin seen around #YarnerWood today
01.04.2025 16:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Great Grey Shrike showed much better and closer to the wall on arrival at #BelleverForest today + 3 Crossbills and several Siskin around the pine trees + Lesser Redpoll with 2 Stonechats around the small trees towards to #BelleverTor
24.03.2025 18:47 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still 8 Blue-headed Wagtails shown togther on fence in one photo taken today at 11.14am + 2 Ringed Plover and Snipe on #SouthHuishMarsh + Black Redstart around the rocks on the beach.
22.03.2025 19:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Distant views of the Great Grey Shrike, incredible views of 3 Crossbills which landed in a tree just above our heads whilst waiting for the GGS, at least 3 Brambling were amongst a large finch flock along the main track at #BelleverForest today.
21.03.2025 19:36 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dipper, 3 Goosanders (m + 2 f), pair Mandarin Ducks, Marsh/LT/Coal Tits, Jay, Nuthatch, Song Thrush, Siskin + Comma and Brimstone Butterflies on a #AVDCS group walk at #StepsBridge today.
20.03.2025 18:05 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4 Little-ringed Plovers, 2 Barnacle Geese and c70 Brent Geese on a very windy #ExminsterMarsh this am @RSPBExeEstuary
18.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 imm Spoonbills before heading out towards the estuary, male Scaup, 3 Pochard, 4 Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, 7 Greenshank, several Pintail, Wren, 6 Sand Martins over marsh heading east and 2 Foxes near railway hedge at #BowlingGreenMarsh late am on the dropping tide
17.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great views of the adult Long-billed Dowitcher feeding around #TurfLocks on the rising tide late pm + 2 Spoonbills on #ExminsterMarsh
25.02.2025 19:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spotted Redshank and 6 Ringed Plovers were the highlight on the #OtterNR #LORP #OtterEstuary #BudleighSalterton today
22.02.2025 19:49 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Russian White-fronted Goose was south of #TurfHotel mid afternoon with the canada flock, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, c800 each for both Golden Plover and Lapwing on the #ExeEstaury and c500 Brent Geese at #ExminsterMarsh
13.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great to catch-up with at least 3 Hawfinch at #Kilmersdon + also good views of Merlin, Barn Owl, 2 Marsh Harriers and 4 Water Rail at #RSPB_Greylake on a trip up to #Somerset today.
11.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good views of female Merlin and Water Rail at #RSPB_Greylake + c35 Common Cranes at #AllerCommon + 3 Russian White-fronted Geese at #RSBP_HamWall + Great Egret at #Catcott #SomersetLevels today
06.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great views of the Booted Eagle at #Marazion #Cornwall this pm also Pacific Diver amongst a number of Black-throated Divers, Razorbills and Guillemots at #Perranuthnoe with @vivthesetter.bsky.social
20.01.2025 19:32 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
