Today's core count priority date was scheduled with high tide over two hours before sunrise, which probably contributed to some disappointing numbers recorded for certain species. Totals included 286 Oystercatchers, 57 Turnstones, c.50 Curlew, 35 Redshanks, nine Greenshanks, 10 Dunlin, three Common Sandpipers, 18 Shelducks, 17 Red-breasted Mergansers, eight Mute Swans, seven Little Grebes, two Wigeon, one Great Crested Grebe and one Great Northern Diver (below Salcombe Dip layby). Elsewhere a Black Redstart was by the New Quay Inn at Teignmouth, a Kestrel was at Netherton and two Lapwings were on the racecourse.
A few bits from last Monday included a Peregrine and a Firecrest in Kingsteignton and this adult Mediterranean Gull at Passage House.
