A fair variety of birds around the patch this morning that was typical of the changing seasons. A look off Teignmouth first thing produced little other than two Great Northern Divers and the unusual sight of two Carrion Crows sat together on a buoy. Onto Bundle Head, where there were a few grounded migrants including three Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap and a Firecrest, with a handful of Chaffinches, Linnets and Meadow Pipits moving north overhead. A scan of the sea around the Labrador Bay mussel farm revealed just a Great Crested Grebe and weirdly a Canada Goose, with six Mute Swans flying south (around this time last year was the famous trio of Surf Scoter, Velvet Scoter and Long-tailed Duck!). A pod of 18 Common Dolphins continued the good run of sightings in Babbacombe Bay this winter.
I arrived at Passage House around the (neap) high tide where there were decent numbers of waders for late March including 31 Redshanks, seven Greenshanks, 28 Curlew and four Snipe, plus 12 Little Egrets. Another 10 Curlew and eight Little Egrets were roosting on Flow Point, and a total of 25 Red-breasted Mergansers were scattered about the estuary. The last stop was Teigngrace, where surprisingly there were no Sand Martins but the Bar-headed Goose and its companion the Swan Goose x Greylag hybrid were in with the Canada Geese after having made an appearance on the racecourse yesterday.
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