Teign Birds

A tour of several sites around the estuary this morning began with a visit to Decoy Lake, which turned up adult and juvenile Great Crested G...

I managed a fairly short seawatch at Teignmouth this morning from 06:45-08:15. Despite the strengthening onshore breeze most birds were a ve...

Combined totals from Passage House and Flow Point this morning included 386 Oystercatchers , 105 Curlew , 6 Whimbrel , 5 Greenshanks , 7 Dun...

Not a great deal of quality around the estuary on a gloriously sunny Thursday afternoon but numbers of certain waders are continuing to incr...

It's that time of year again when large numbers of Common Sandpipers build up on the estuary. A total of 15 were around the site with t...

There was horse racing on again today which meant there were high numbers of Black-headed Gulls at Passage House, c400+. With them were jus...

Yesterday there were plenty of gulls to look through at Passage House. After about 10 minutes of scanning I came across a gull that immediat...

Bird news first - Will saw a female Goosander on Sunday swimming down river from Newton Abbot Town Quay, and yesterday I had a flock of c15 ...

Due to Sunday commitments I did the WeBS count a day early and was joined by Laurie. We started by viewing Passage House from the bottom of ...

There was a good gathering of 200+ Black-headed Gulls roosting at Passage House over high tide today, mainly due to it being race day on th...