Painted Topshell, a lifer and quite a few live ones found, what a stunning species
Broad-clawed or Hairy Porcelain Crab, about 60-100 individuals seen over 2 days
Gracile Sea Spider, 1 found on the first day and followed up by 5+ more today
Side-gilled Seaslug, 2 or 3 found
3/3
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Rock Goby
Worm Pipefish, 12+ individuals found today
Velvet Crab, probably at least 25+ seen over two days
Green Sea Urchins, 6+ found over the 2 days
2/3
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Aeolidia filomenae, common but beautiful nudibranch species, we found 5 individuals over the 2 days
Sea Gherkin (Pawsonia saxicola), 2 found today and along with one unidentified brown sea cucumber found yesterday, our first ever sea cucumbers
Tompot Blenny
Common Brittle Star, 3 individuals found today
Two days of flipping rocks at Torquay beach has really paid off for myself and @kieope.bsky.social , with our best two tidepooling sessions we’ve had yet. 11 lifers and many other good species found! Couldn’t pick just 4 for pics so more in comments #rockpooling #wildlife #sealife #devon
Barnacle Goose
Pale-bellied Brent Goose among hundreds of Dark-bellied Brents
Zebra Jumping Spider (Salticus scenicus)
March kicked off with a couple nice geese and my our first jumper of the year! Ive been a tad bad at keeping up with postings recently lol
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Thats a top class casp
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So its a different one to this bird?
Cetti’s Warbler unusually singing from in the bracken
Broadsands - 11:30 - 1 brambling, 1 siskin, 100+ chaffinch, 50+ linnet, 1 firecrest, 1 cetti’s, 5 GND, & 1 razorbill
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A larus gull (I haven’t confirmed if its herring or LBBG yet lol)
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Some more unsuccessful gulling at dawlish warren @warrenbirding.bsky.social
Saw seven-spot ladybird & gorse weevil inbetween the rain though
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Where is queen’s marsh in dartington? i cant find it on the map. Might go there/totnes and try find dipper tomorrow.
Im pretty sure its seafield gardens minigolf
Green Shield Bug
Orange Ladybird
Sowerby’s Keeled Slug
7-spot Ladybird
A couple of bugs from yesterday!
#entomology
i found an exciting weevil at Otter Estuary today called the Gorse Weevil, i’ve seen the species before at Dawlish Warren but i could never get tired of them!
Spoonbill feeding
Kingfisher perched on a reed
Whimbrel
Distant Cattle Egret
A couple birds from today, unfortunately no water pipits for us at otter estuary, however the spoonbills showed fantastically. #devonbirds
Too small for YLG? Maybe too pale as well? Idk other ID features other than that. Could it be the continental herring gull subspecies?
Caspian Gull
Black Redstart
Black-throated Diver
Little Gull
Had a pretty good January with @kieope.bsky.social !
Lots of good birds, highlights - slav grebe, BNG, whitefronts, spotshank, purple sands, BTD, little gulls, casps, velvet scoter, black redstart, goldeneye, razorbill, whimbrel, & RTDs.
Hopefully many more good birding months to come! #devonbirds
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Today @wildweevils.bsky.social and i went to Decoy Country Park in Newton Abbot and saw a group of 3 Treecreepers, which were a lifer for me! They were amazing to watch! We also got a Marsh Tit which we saw for half a second aha!
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A few more pics, and a second bird in pic 4, perhaps the bird I saw on the 27th? Didn’t get good quality pic of this bird unfortunately #devonbirds
First winter Caspian Gull
Juvenile Black-throated Diver
Purple Sandpiper feeding along harbour wall
Nonbreeding plumage Razorbill
Lovely afternoon in Brixham harbour, if a little wet! January’s nemesis bird of BTD finally defeated after about 5 attempts lol. And cracking views of the best larus. #devonbirds
Caspian Gull roosting on a pontoon with 50+ shags
Caspian Gull preening
Razorbill in non-breeding plumage
Finally I’ve seen a caspian gull!! A terrible bus ride to brixham today was worth it for my first lifer of the year, spotted by @kieope.bsky.social
Also a nice razorbill feeding in the harbour
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Ring-necked Parakeets on the outskirts of Exmouth
Whimbrel in flight, Exmouth
Brent Goose at the duckpond, Exmouth
Duckpond, Exmouth
Had a lovely day in Exmouth yesterday with @kieope.bsky.social! Some nice birds, and had 2 little gulls from the train off teignmouth which was cool
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@devonshirenature.bsky.social yes, well different bird but still a lovely caspian
Well one of them did!
I wonder if it will stick around till tmr morning
Herring Gull
Gulls on Dawlish Warren beach
Greenland lake being a bit more lakey
A rather meagre big garden birdwatch count
Did the @rspb.bsky.social big garden birdwatch yesterday morning, and some gulling at @warrenbirding.bsky.social which produced less than hoped, but still a couple subad LBBG’s and at least one kittiwake close in off the seawall
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captive Muscovy Duck- with bubbling eye unfortunately.
Shag on rocks
Great Northern Diver
Church in Stoke Gabriel
Some of my photos from the past couple of weeks!
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Some very showy little gulls off teignmouth seafront this morning!
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