An encouraging start to the year with 79 species recorded. The Yellow-browed Warbler put in another appearance along Whitelake Channel with a male Blackcap and several Chiffchaffs in the same area. At Arch Brook presumably the same Spotted Redshank is back for another winter, but there was no sign of the two Spoonbills reported a couple of days ago. In the Passage House area 16 Avocets, two Wigeon, one Common Sandpiper, one Black-tailed Godwit and a calling Cetti's Warbler were noted.
Rackerhayes provided all of the expected wetland and woodland species including 23 Tufted Ducks, two Mandarins, Siskin, Bullfinch, Mistle Thrush, Nuthatch and Treecreeper, plus one of four Firecrests recorded throughout the day (others were at Golvers Hill and Hackney Marshes). Off Teignmouth seafront there was pod of 10+ Common Dolphins and at least one Harbour Porpoise but few birds - just one Red-throated Diver, one Gannet and a handful of Shags, Cormorants and Guillemots.
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