The annual summer build up of Canada Geese reached new heights on Sunday, with a total of 304 loafing in the Passage House area. Also 310 Oystercatchers, 55 Curlew, 12 Greenshanks, two Redshanks, six Ringed Plovers, five Common Sandpipers, one Dunlin, one Whimbrel, 36 Little Egrets, 48 Mute Swans, 25 Mallards, six Cormorants and a Kingfisher noted around the estuary.
A quick 20-minute seawatch off Teignmouth in the evening was relatively productive, with three Balearic Shearwaters, four Common Scoters, good numbers of Gannets and two skua species noted although all were quite distant (well beyond the line of the passing Dawlish to Shaldon rowing race).
D'oh! It was me who came and spoke to you! Alan F
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