Cream Tea Birding

I am enjoying a good run of Ospreys at the patch this year with 2 birds so far. This bird flew down the Otter Valley and then headed west ov...

A nice surprise this morning on the patch was this drake Green-winged Teal and presumably the same bird from last May HERE and HERE  that h...

Spring is slowly starting for us here on the Otter Estuary. Local highlights over the last few weeks have been as follows: Little Ringed Plo...

I visited Slimbridge Wetlands Centre (WWT) last week with the primary reason to have a way overdue meet up and some birding time with good m...

 Great to catch up with only my 3rd Velvet Scoter for the patch today off Chiselbury Bay - a jug bird with characteristic pale belly. My pre...

A great find by local Exmouth birder Glyn Vernall yesterday. My first in Budleigh since the birds I was lucky to find back in November 2011 ...

Having recently returned from my annual pilgrimage to St Martin's, Isles of Scilly (more on that to come), I have been eager to get back...

Great to see so many juvenile Shelducks on the patch with the highest number I have ever known., so clearly the Restoration Project has crea...

Great to see some wader passage on the Otter Estuary NR yesterday morning in the drizzly conditions and a light SE wind. A very flighty mixe...

Chuffed to find this Green-winged Teal today on the patch this afternoon! It was sleeping when I first found it and it spent most of its tim...