Teign Birds

It has been over a week now since the  Alpine Swifts  first appeared, and as of last night at least one was still roosting at St Michael...

Up to three Alpine Swifts continued to grace the patch on Tuesday. There was no sign of any emerging from St Michael's Church at dawn, ...

The first Alpine Swift for the patch was found hawking over Shaldon and The Ness at midday, viewed distantly from Teignmouth, part a major n...

There was a time when this dismissive moniker might have been applied to Ring-billed Gull. Back in the 1990s this species was virtually annu...

 A  Spotted Redshank  was roosting on the south side of the estuary just west of Arch Brook this morning. This is an under-watched area of t...

Spring felt a long way off this morning with a cold north-easterly wind tempering any warmth from the sun. Two Black-tailed Godwits at Passa...

 A Sunday morning stroll from The Ness to Bundle Head, then back inland behind Coast View holiday park, in glorious weather produced one  Fi...

I was intrigued to see this sign by the reedbed at Coombe Cellars yesterday. If anyone knows anything about it I'd be interested to lear...

The discovery of a  Hooded Crow  on The Salty this morning by Rob Murphy was an unexpected but welcome addition to the patch list. It had th...

A high tide well before sunrise on core count day didn't make for ideal counting conditions, and numbers of some species (larger waders ...