Seawatch from @warrenbirding.bsky.social today 11:15-13:30, 3 RTD, 1 GND, 10 c scoter, 1 manxie, 12 auk sp, 2 GCG, 40 s’wich tern & the highlight - a little tern Kiera saw a water vole as well! Additionally 2 days ago we also had lesser whitethroat and a surprise stoat at the warren! #devonbirds

Some adventures on the moors and heaths a week ago - 2 cuckoo, 2 redstart, 1 wheatear, 3 dartford warbler, 2 pied fly, 1 tree pipit, 3 firecrest, 30 willow warbler, and some hirundines! #devonbirds

Some recent insect lifers from near the house #entomology #bugs #wildlife

Highlights of the end of March - dipper, wheatear, adder, slowworm, black oil beetle, ashy mining bee, common pipistrelle, & toad tadpoles #devonbirds #wildlife

Warm trip to Exminster Marshes earlier in the week, some good birds with the continental blackwit, lingering whitefront, spotshank, spoonbill, 2 sedge, 2 reed, & 2 WW, swallows + 1 house martin. Additionally - our first large white, nettle tap moth, and common lizard of the year! #devonbirds

More local Torquay birding yday, first short seawatch of the spring - Hope’s Nose; 80+ manxie, 4 sandwich tern S, 1 RTD S, & common dolphins. + siskins heard - Failed to see a dipper near Dartington but got this NFY brown-lipped snail, and Kiera’s first swallows of the yr! #devonbirds #ukwildlife

My first warty venus clam and red-speckled anemone at Torquay beach yesterday, plus a large rock goby and a sea cucumber #rockpools #marine #wildlife

From my local area of Torquay in the past week - red kite, 5+ firecrest, 1 RTD, guilles & fulmar, nuthatch, GSW drumming, 35+ greenfinch, 2 skylark & 1 linnet in off sea, 3 palmate newt, 4+ porpoise, grey-patched & yellow-legged mining bees, 1 carder, and a comma. #devonbirds #wildlife

From recent days; lesser spotted woodpecker, spoonbill, wheatear, goosander, marsh tit, red kite, palmate newt, brown hare, porpoise, violet oil beetle, bloody-nosed beetle, 4 species of mining bee, & red-speckled anemone. All from south devon. Just passed 300 sp for my animal yearlist! #devonbirds

Saltram/Blaxton meadow today with @kieope.bsky.social ; 1w bonaparte’s gull, pair of red-crested pochard, 2 mandarin, 1 common sandpiper, 10+ parakeets, 1 greenshank, 3 grey wag, 1 stock dove, 4 nuthatch, & 2 firecrests Nice to bump in to @stephmurphy.bsky.social & @robmurphy.bsky.social #devonbirds

Had a short holiday down in falmouth recently, saw some gulls at hayle and loads of cool sea creatures in falmouth. Also had a pair of red-necked grebes and a goshawk from the train! Bonaparte’s was uk lifer #244 #ukbirding

Two days of flipping rocks at Torquay beach has really paid off for myself and @kieope.bsky.social , with our best two tidepooling sessions we’ve had yet. 11 lifers and many other good species found! Couldn’t pick just 4 for pics so more in comments #rockpooling #wildlife #sealife #devon

March kicked off with a couple nice geese and my our first jumper of the year! Ive been a tad bad at keeping up with postings recently lol #devonbirds #spiders

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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