I’m sure the pre-roost and post-roost rafts of GND’s in the evenings and mornings make counting easier. When they are busy feeding we must miss a lot of underwater birds.
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I’m sure the pre-roost and post-roost rafts of GND’s in the evenings and mornings make counting easier. When they are busy feeding we must miss a lot of underwater birds.
My best effort on the Black-throated Diver off Brixham Breakwater found the day before by @seaskywatch.bsky.social still lots of Great Northern Divers too, flocks of 80+ Shags feeding out there with again flocks of Cormorants too the bay must be full of food.
Just incredible numbers of Great Northern Divers in Tor Bay after these storms!
That is a brilliant comparison shot Mark!!
I've just advertised my spring/summer and autumn guided wildlife cruises from Torbay and Kingswear/Dartmouth #Devon including the popular 6hr Lyme Bay pelagics - for details see: mikelangman.co.uk/guided-cruis...
They book up quickly...
A sinensis 'continental' Cormorant at Stoke Gabriel Mill pond #Torbay this morning.
The Yellow-browed Warbler at Broadsands #Torbay showed well from time to time in the 2nd car park - I assume it's the same bird that showed in the trees above the Cirl Bunting feeding station an hour later.
At Broadsands #Torbay a Yellow-browed Warbler was in willows and scrub at the back of the 2nd car park near to the green skip, also in same place 2 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff.
Boom! All the 'red-tailed shrikes' done in Suffolk this year with Isabelline Shrike at N Warren this afternoon. Made sweeter as it is a grip back for me too, having missed the previous birds. No matter what anyone says to me, I can't see such pale birds not being isabellinus
Well done Jake!!
First there for a little while - at one point I thought they might prove to be a permanent feature at Slapton!
With a SE mod breeze and rain in early Nov should drop something in the bushes. Still gutted I left a few minutes too early on our seawatch Mark, I’ve seen many more Pallas’s than Leaches Petrels off Berry Head!!
A Pallas's Warbler showed up briefly in the bottom of Berry Head quarry today but no sign afterward, despite 2hrs of searching! Also 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Firecrests and 8-10 Goldcrests. Also from a few days ago in 5th Nov at Clennon Lakes Torbay a Siberian Chiffchaff with an influx of 16+ chiffchaffs
Ad Arctic Skua
Great Skua
Berry Hd 0700-1100: Leach's Storm-petrel (10:20), 2 Manx, juv Arctic Tern, 16k Kittiwakes, 27 Med Gulls, 35 Cn Gulls, c6,000 Razorbill/Guillemot, juv (pale type) Pomarine Skua, 5 Arctic, 5 Bonxie, 2 GN Diver, Red-t Diver, c20 Cn Dolphin, 4 H Porpoise, 2 ABF Tuna with @clennonvalley.bsky.social
Must be a really good year for cage fungus I clocked up 9 this morning around Berry Head including 3 in one clump! @jacob-wood.bsky.social
On the way back from the #BerryHead seawatch yesterday @jacob-wood.bsky.social spotted this cage fungus growing on the side of the quarry track. He then found another 6 or 7 near to the navigational beacon !
Berry Head #Devon seawatch with @jacob-wood.bsky.social 0740-10.40am: 4800 + auks sp. 11 Puffin, 2 Sooty, 2 Balearic & 12 Manx Shearwaters, 1200+ Kittiwake, 64 Med Gulls, 1 Y- l Gull, 1 Arctic Skua, 8 Gadwall. @seaskywatch.bsky.social arrived as we were leaving….
Osprey and Mullet
Osprey and Mullet
Osprey and Mullet
Osprey, a juvenile, with a freshly caught Mullet seen over the River Dart yesterday on a great cruise on the African Queen from Kingswear/ Dartmouth.
Guide Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social
River Dart cruise on African Queen. Guide Mike Langman. @clennonvalley.bsky.social
Yellow Flagged Curlew C5 over a red band on left leg. On right leg is an orange (?) ring. I'll do a bit of digging, it may be a headstarted bird.
2. Peregrine overhead.
3 + 4. Lots of Buzzards over the river.
A few places going on my rescheduled, very last, River Dart 'Osprey cruise on Monday 6th October at 11.30am cruise lasts for 4 hrs cost £43 .
Tuesdays Cruise: Osprey, Kingfishers, Hobby, Peregrine, Great Egret, Little Egrets, Harbour & Grey Seals Stunning scenery etc..etc..!
Back from Mallorca - now struggling to identify this very plain looking Lizard - it doesn't seen to match the descriptions of the two true lizards found on the island.. Any one help with identity..? It was probably about 8'' or more in total length. it looks more like an Algyroides - introduced?
Grey Phalarope
Sabine's Gull
Sooty Shearwater
European Storm Petrel
Brilliant pelagic trip yesterday led by @clennonvalley.bsky.social on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham.
Grey Phalarope
Sabine's Gull juvenile
Sooty Shearwater
European Storm Petrel
White-beaked Dolphin
White-beaked Dolphin
White-beaked Dolphin
Rare treat ! White-beaked Dolphins seen on a @clennonvalley.bsky.social pelagic trip on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. These White-beaks were just off Berry Head. @Saunders
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
I think 92 were counted in Cornwall just a few hours earlier...?
After watching Ospreys on my guided Dart 'Osprey' Cruise and telling the group to look out for possible Glossy Ibis's this happens!! I estimated 70 but there were 91! perhaps the Wadebridge flock? at least 3 Ospreys, Kingfisher Mandarin Ducks, Common Sandpipers too.
Looks like I'm going to cancel my guided Dart Osprey cruise tomorrow, rescheduling for Friday am for a 0930hrs start from Kingswear or Dartmouth several of the original trip can't make the Friday so I have several vacant spaces of interested please message me ASAP £43.
Looks like I'm going to cancel my guided Dart Osprey cruise tomorrow, rescheduling for Friday am for a 0930hrs start from Kingswear or Dartmouth several of the original trip can't make the Friday so I have several vacant spaces of interested please message me ASAP £43.
Berry Head 06:45-18:00
14 Great Shearwater, 3 Cory's Shearwater, 1 Sooty, c200 Balearic, c340 Manx, 28 Arctic Skua, 3 Bonxie,72 Sandwich Tern, 27 Common Tern (+8 'commic').
Also 5 Yellow Wagtail over first thing. #devonbirds #ukbirding
Yellow-legged Gull
Common Dolphin
Manx Shearwater
Common Terns
Some of the sightings from the pelagic trip led by @clennonvalley.bsky.social on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham.
Yellow-legged Gull
One from a pod of Common Dolphins
Manx Shearwater
Part of a flock of Common Terns
Other birds seen:
Balearic Shearwater, Black Tern, Gannets, Kittiwakes