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Broadsands - 11:30 - 1 brambling, 1 siskin, 100+ chaffinch, 50+ linnet, 1 firecrest, 1 cetti’s, 5 GND, & 1 razorbill #devonbirds

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Some more unsuccessful gulling at dawlish warren @warrenbirding.bsky.social Saw seven-spot ladybird & gorse weevil inbetween the rain though #devonbirds

A couple of bugs from yesterday! #entomology

i found an exciting weevil at Otter Estuary today called the Gorse Weevil, i’ve seen the species before at Dawlish Warren but i could never get tired of them!

A couple birds from today, unfortunately no water pipits for us at otter estuary, however the spoonbills showed fantastically. #devonbirds

Had a pretty good January with @kieope.bsky.social ! Lots of good birds, highlights - slav grebe, BNG, whitefronts, spotshank, purple sands, BTD, little gulls, casps, velvet scoter, black redstart, goldeneye, razorbill, whimbrel, & RTDs. Hopefully many more good birding months to come! #devonbirds

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Today @wildweevils.bsky.social and i went to Decoy Country Park in Newton Abbot and saw a group of 3 Treecreepers, which were a lifer for me! They were amazing to watch! We also got a Marsh Tit which we saw for half a second aha! #devonbirds #ukbirding

Lovely afternoon in Brixham harbour, if a little wet! January’s nemesis bird of BTD finally defeated after about 5 attempts lol. And cracking views of the best larus. #devonbirds

Finally I’ve seen a caspian gull!! A terrible bus ride to brixham today was worth it for my first lifer of the year, spotted by @kieope.bsky.social Also a nice razorbill feeding in the harbour #devonbirds

Had a lovely day in Exmouth yesterday with @kieope.bsky.social! Some nice birds, and had 2 little gulls from the train off teignmouth which was cool #devonbirds

Did the @rspb.bsky.social big garden birdwatch yesterday morning, and some gulling at @warrenbirding.bsky.social which produced less than hoped, but still a couple subad LBBG’s and at least one kittiwake close in off the seawall #devonbirds

Some of my photos from the past couple of weeks! #devonbirds #ukbirding #photography

Some very showy little gulls off teignmouth seafront this morning! #devonbirds

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A lovely grebe at stoke gabriel today and a couple of birds from paignton yesterday #devonbirds

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Only 4th attempt with these geese! Found a surprise spotshank near exminster marshes carpark. Stunning water rail taken by @kieope.bsky.social #devonbirds

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A couple of lovely birds from Torquay Harbour right before new year #devonbirds

Yday morning a brief trip to hope’s nose, got my main target but unfortunately narrowly missed the BTD and couldn’t locate the black redstarts. Lovely weather though compared to today! #devonbirds

A very bone-chilling brief visit to Otter Estuary today, but got our main target plus a few other bits and pieces. Slav, goosander, reed bunt, ringed plover, & dunlin #devonbirds

Roundup from first 3 days of january, managed 79 species via public transport only, with 2 trips to bowling green marsh and 1 trip to wall’s hill. Largely unsuccessful dipping almost all targets. Still fun though! Other than pics also got knot, rb merg, pintail, RTD, marshie, & firecrest #devonbirds

Goldeneye at turf, looking for snipes near topsham, and herring gulls on torquay beach #devonbirds

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