Gorgeous young male snow bunting from 6th November at @warrenbirding.bsky.social with @kieope.bsky.social Such a cool bird to watch #devonbirds

@warrenbirding.bsky.social although you didn’t get the barnacle goose on the 14th, I photographed it (didn’t actually see it though at the time 😭), plus a couple other birds from the warren recently #ukbirds #devonbirds

Trip w @kieope.bsky.social to Otter Estuary on Weds produced some nice birds - goosanders, spotshank, selffound probable curlew sand, cetti’s warblers, & 3 redwing. Stopped of at @warrenbirding.bsky.social at dusk and had the short-eared owl fly right past us! #devonbirds #birds

Vismig 7-9 this morning from babbacombe produced 22 siskins, 13 redpolls, 2 sprawks, 7 swallows & 5 mipits all S. Weds had osprey, 20 siskins & 250 swallows from berry head. 📷 - Kingfisher, Common Darter, Canada Goose, Meadow Pipit all by @kieope.bsky.social #devonbirds

@kieope.bsky.social and I visited dawlish warren and BGM today, we got our main target of curlew sand, plus a few other decent birds and total sp count 65 for the day. - 2 swallow & 10 mipit vismig, + 8 avocet, 2 whimbrel, 20 barwit, 6 greenshank, 3 ruff, 30+ pintail, 40 brent & 3 s tern #devonbirds

Not seen many birds since October started, just a few chiffs, fire and goldcrests, grey wags & siskins. Found a couple of cool bugs tho Pictured - Red Cabbage Bug, Wrinkled Snail, Door-snail, & my first White-striped Centipede #devonbirds #entomology #bugs #wildlife #devon

Trip to Topsham and BGM with @kieope.bsky.social this afternoon, not many waders or other birds of interest about - 3 ruff (year ✅), 1 avocet, 6 barwit, 1 greenshank, 1+ knot, 2 snipe, 10 pintail, 3 mipit, cettis, male marsh harrier, & yellowhammer heard. #devonbirds #Exeter

Vismig from babbacombe downs this morning 8-9:30 as i slept thru the alarms. Main highlight was a good passage of siskins, vismig totals included: 1 g heron, 2 swallow, 2 grey wag, 6 mipit, 25 linnet, & 138 siskins! All south. Also 10+ lingering chiffs probably migrants & 4 firecrests #devonbirds

Little Stint frantically feeding at Bowling Green Marsh from Sunday in the evening light #devonbirds

Not much at low tide on the teign estuary this afternoon, with gulls on the salty being 100+ herring, c5 GBBG, & 1 LBBG (📷) plus a cool leucistic oystercatcher, flyovers of 2 little egret, 5 meadow pipit, buzzard & sprawk, and hundreds of little common gobies. #devonbirds #estuary #PWC2025

Visit to DW yday looking out to the bight didn’t produce much with 8 s martins, 2 brent, 150 curlew, 300+ oyc, + a few rshank, dunlin, & ring plovers. However further into the warren we had more luck - spot fly at the main pond, grey wag in DDW, and m eider & 40+ c scoter off the seawall #devonbirds

Had a nice evening with good views of firecrest, if slightly dodgy pics, and found an osprey between Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton! #devonbirds

Garden vismig from babbacombe 800-930 AM, pretty late morning for anything crazy. Overhead passage - 25+ mipits, 1 siskin, 4 goldfinch, 6 cormorant, 4 grey wag, 180+ swallow, & 280+ house martin. Grounded migrants - 3 chiffs, + resident birds but nuthatch & firecrest heard were cool! #devonbirds

Went exmouth, budleigh, and then BGM at dusk yday - Highlights uk lifer #240 bairds sand, 2 little stint, 5 glossy ibis, 7+ knot, green sand, wheatear, 2 firecrest, kingfishers, 3+ barwits, & 8+ greenshank. Plus rusty-dot pearl, forest bug, and finally lifered brickwork woodlouse! #devonbirds

Devil’s Coach Horse and Silver Y plus lots of other moths on the wing at Greenland Lake @warrenbirding.bsky.social whilst I and @kieope.bsky.social were failing to find the reported rosefinch #entomology #devonbirds

BerryHead yday 1130-1530, quite calm conditions with mixed but mostly good visibility, so limited passage. 4 probable great shear, 42 balearic, 1 manxie, 3 arctic skua, 1 ad little gull, 4 c scoter, 4 sdwch tern, & 1k+ kitts. Mostly all heading south, + bluefin tuna, c dolphins & g seal #devonbirds

yday whilst seawatching at berry head was swarmed by mating ants, some of which were apparently Solenopsis fugax, which is quite scarce with only a handful of known sites in southern England. Can’t see any records at Berry Head so was wondering if anyone knew anything abt it. 📷 weevil #entomology

Osprey over Countess Weir roundabout at 12:30 today from the bus! Thought it was a gull until I got bins on it. #devonbirds

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

a couple hours at Berry Head earlier, 20+ porpoise, 1 bottlenose dolphin, & 3 med gull on the seawatching front, and 2+ clouded yellow, 1 painted lady, 2 wheatear, 2 chiffs, 10+ large white, & a few red admirals on the migrant side. #devonbirds

Brief and wet seawatch from breakwater beach. Not too bad for 45ish mins - highlights 35+ manxie & 9+ balearics, with a couple manxies very close in with the bad weather. Also g heron & 2 sdwich tern over the sea, 150 kitts, turnstones, little egret, hummingbird hawkmoth, & grey seal #devonbirds

Short and unrewarding seawatch from @warrenbirding.bsky.social with only birds of some interest r pipit & med gull. Tidepooling was productive w shore, edible, hairy porcelain, & dead spider crab, + a ragworm, 2 dwarf brittle star, large rockling sp & the rest of the usuals. #devonbirds #rockpools

A very rufous looking toad, mallard, large white (📷 by my gf), & a rusty dot pearl #wildlife

A short vid of the wheatear from wall‘s hill a week ago, absolutely lovely birds, love the tail flick! #devonbirds #PWC2025

Wall’s Hill vismig - Overhead migrants - 1 ringed plover, 1 pied wag, 1 mipit, 1 linnet, 29 swallow & 2 house martin. Grounded migrants - 40+ phylloscs (mostly chiffs), & 2 blackcap. Also firecrest and 2 site ticks with tawny owl & collared dove #devonbirds #PWC2025

Terrible quality vid of the Sabine’s Gull, my UK lifer #240, and a much wanted bird! Now just to get good views of an adult aha #devonbirds

Went exmouth tday, was at maer nr when sabs gull reported at D warren, managed to scope from maer! also wheatear & clouded yellow. headed exmouth beach for a gull storm off DW, 1k bhg, gbbg & gannet, 500+ HG, 20+ sarnie, 20+ cmn tern, 1 med gull, & 1 little gull! + sabs showing better. #devonbirds

A vid from yday at Turf, of the golden plover on the Exe estuary. Originally believed to be an american golden plover, apparently it was reidentified after I left as just a lonely european golden! I am curious as to what confirms it as european though. My latest swifts yday aswell #devonbirds

Great visit to Exminster Marshes yesterday; close but brief views of the wryneck, with other highlights being - flyby glossy ibis, 4 cattle egret, 1 yellow wag, 5+ knot, 2 greenshank, 1 golden plover, 1 cettis, 1 blackcap, c70 swallows & c30 house martins. #devonbirds

little visit to @warrenbirding.bsky.social, got soaked. Yellow wagtail calling in the entrance bushes briefly, 10+ cirls, 5 oystcs, 3 sanderling, & 2 ringed plover on the golf course, + stonechat, kingfisher, sandwich tern, and a migrant hawker. #devonbirds

Vismig/seawatch at Wall’s Hill this AM. Sparse grounded and overhead migrants - 1 yellow wag, 2 grey wag, 1 firecrest, 1 wheatear, & 10+ chiff. On the sea 6+ common scoter, & 350 kittiwake. Also nuthatch heard #devonbirds #wildlife

Little walk to wall’s hill, middle of the day so not much. Migrants 1 swallow, 1 chiff, 2 linnet, & 1 stock dove. Also gannet + 2 shags on sea and a singing firecrest. Hopefully vismig there tmr morning #devonbirds

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Trip to @warrenbirding.bsky.social from Monday to see Autumn Lady’s Tresses was cut short by the heat, only other noted species - eyebright sp, common blue & cirl bunting over the dunes. #devonbirds

My favourite pics from an afternoon in Dawlish yestetday. A swallow over only migrant bird. Also moorhens, black swans, black-headed gulls, feral pigeons & jackdaws. #devonbirds

Seawatch from Wall’s Hill Tquay 7:20-8:45AM. Not the best as all the birds go past hope’s nose and are too distant. Picked up 3 yellow wags over in 5 mins b4 seawatching so probs should’ve stuck to vismig. 1 manxie, 5 unknown shears, c100 gannet, 10 kitt, 2 med gulls (📷) & 1 egret #devonbirds

📷 - 3/6 great white egrets over on this morning’s vismig, common grass veneer, hummingbird hawkmoth, & small copper Not much on the train back to Torquay, 2 possible yellow wags, kingfisher flying up the Exeter canal, & a sandwich tern over the sea near Dawlish. #somersetbirding #devonbirds

Vismig this morning from South Petherton, pretty good with migrant counts in 3 hours including 16 stock dove, 6 gw egret, 2 sand martin, 15 swallow, 17 house martin, a few chiffs & 2 yellow wag. Non migrant interest 3 mute swans flew over Plus a probable turtle dove! #somersetbirding #wildlife

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Mother of pearl, white-shouldered house moth & small dusty wave this evening in the house in south Somerset Vismig tmr morning #moths

Clouded yellow 10:20AM Torquay train station. c100 curlew in flight over Exe Estuary + 2 common sand & 4 cattle egrets. Tide was too far out to spot any close waders on the estuary #devonbirds #wildlife

A herring gull pinching a pear and a holly blue from Wednesday #wildlife #devonbirds #butterflies

My favourite Torbay birds so far this year #devonbirds

Garden bird sp #34 is an unexpected great spotted woodpecker flyby Also added commom grass-veneer & common green capsid to the yearlist, sp #740 & #741. #devonbirds

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Vismig from garden in babbacombe this AM 6:18-8:30 20 sp in 2hr could be worse, but migration was close to non existent and im beginning to believe its just a bad geographical location for passage 😭 Did add 4 sp to garden list, lbbg, gbbg, peregrine & coal tit 3 swifts only migrants #devonbirds

Wryneck at Hope‘s Nose found by @shiphaybirder.bsky.social And refound by myself after 2hrs of it not showing! The other birders there got much better pics My most wanted bird lifer! #devonbirds

Wryneck at Hope’s Nose torquay! Ill be going soon 🤞 #devonbirds

Vismig from the garden in devon was v poor this morning, overcast with cold easterlies and basically nothing overhead. Just 2 swifts Gonna try get the garden list up from 28 bird sp to 50 this autumn #devonbirds

Train journey back to Torquay this afternoon - 13 cattle egrets, 2 common sandpiper, & lots of gulls! #devonbirds