Cream Tea Birding

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...

Despite a lack of blog updates, I have been out birding pretty much every day throughout March and April staying loyal to the patch around B...

The Spring still seems a long way off as the dreary, grey, cold and wet weather continues! Migrants seem few and far between around the loca...

Very pleased to see my first true Spring migrant of 2024 on the patch this morning with two Little Ringed Plovers on LORP just south of Sout...

A few photos from the last few months..... A visit to the fantastic RSPB Greylake Reserve in Somerset on 3rd February. Helen and I visited s...

I have been thinking a lot about my Dad lately, after he very sadly passed away not long before Christmas 2023. Dad's big passions were ...