Cream Tea Birding

Finally back from a good few weeks guiding overseas and pleased to be home.  Thanks to a great find by Devon birder and old friend AJ, I add...

Having returned from 2 weeks in Namibia yesterday, I was looking forward to visiting the patch and headed down there late afternoon after ha...

Since the excitement of the Baird's Sandpiper, the great local birding continues with a nice selection of scarcities. I last saw the Bai...

Well, tonight was exciting on the patch! Literally, the first bird I see at the pools on Little Marsh is a Baird's Sandpiper! Another lo...

Great to find 3 Curlew Sandpipers on yesterday's high tide - Equals my highest count for the patch!

A nice morning on the patch today with a lovely juvenile Curlew Sandpiper and a Sanderling in amongst a group of Ringed Plover and Dunlin, a...

Incredible flocks of 30+ on Scilly today and flocks of over 40+ at Cornish sites, so not surprising that 6 birds dropped into the local patc...

A nice surprise whilst birding the Otter Estuary NR yesterday evening when this Glossy Ibis dropped in and started feeding on Big Marsh nort...

Thanks to local birder Viv Keene, I managed to get a day time view of what is presumably(?) the same Night Heron that I first found back on ...

Following another evening beaver walk on Sunday 15th June, I was walking back to my car and heard what sounded like a Night Heron calling at...