Mark Bailey
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5 Ring Ouzels eventually found on Dartmoor this morning plus c12 Fieldfare, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird and 2 Reed Buntings
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Happy 40th anniversary to “Cuckoo day” on St Mary’s - 12/10/85- one of the most famous days in birding history - pics YBC- D Cotteridge and BBC - P Wheeler (plus Parula, Yellow-Rumped W, RB Grosbeak etc etc)
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The Spotted Sand still at St Warna’s Cove , St Agnes this afternoon and showing well
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The Buff Bellied Pipit showing very well on St Agnes this afternoon at the end of Barnaby Lane
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The Hoopoe on Periglis Beach St Agnes showing well this afternoon
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The Mourning Dove still on St Agnes this afternoon on continual view and showing well
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Firecrest in the garden late afternoon - Torquay- phone pics only
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Spoonbill still 315pm on the River Teign from Passage House Inn car park and showing well
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Pec Sand at Bowling Green Marsh from Hide mid afternoon and showing well on edge of main lake- found early afternoon by @BackwardBirder
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A non birding holiday in Ibiza for the last week but still saw 4 Balearic Warblers,2 Med flys,Z Cisticola, BRThrush, c300Flamingo,2 Hoopoe,Stone Curlew, c25Audoiuns Gulls(4 sites),Eleonoras Falcon,Turtle Dove,Many Sards, c100 BN Grebes,Nightingale heard - huge thanks to @sferguk
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Berry Head 720am-930am- very quiet with hardly any seabirds moving - 5 Balearic Shears, 1 Manx, 2 Sandwich Terns, c400 Kittiwakes plus 2 Atlantic BF Tuna- also Grey Wagtail and Common Sand
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An afternoon dog walk found me at Countess Weir and the ridiculously confiding 4 Glossy Ibis still c5pm on the flooded pools right next to the footpath - c100-200 yards north of the car park/bridge
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Dawlish Warren this morning - c150 Common Terns, c100 Sandwich Terns, 6 Knot, 10 Bar Tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, c70 Dunlin, 14 Wigeon, 2 Med Gulls, Peregrine over the bight, 31 Mute Swans and 2 Wheatears
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Rose Coloured Starling again 845am with Starlings on roof with solar panels on Brownhill lane (2nd house down on right )- Wembury
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The juv Rose Coloured Starling still Wembury Mewstone Avenue/Brownhill Lane 815-830am with Starling Flock and showing well in dead tree- this is the 22nd Rose Coloured Starling I’ve seen in Devon and interestingly exactly half have been juvs and half summer birds
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The Grey Phalarope still 315pm at least at the back of the pool at South Huish Marsh going backwards and forwards in front of the far reeds- The first Grey Phal I have ever seen in August in Devon ! And the third one I have seen at South Huish in recent years
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Berry Head-1250pm-4pm- an exciting afternoon with 11 Great Shears (total for the day 13) and 2 Corys Shears (total for the day 3)- most relatively close in - also c6Balearic Shears, 2 Arctic Skua, Common Tern, 2 Sandwich Terns with @clennonvalley @Exmoorbirder @JacobW1997
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Powderham Marsh - also today over 2 visits - Wood Sand, Ruff, Green Sand and 4 LRP (plus the Glossy Ibis)
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Glossy ibis-Powderham Marsh mid am then flushed by a train at 1018am & flew over railway line & landed on/near lagoon on Exminster Marsh-it was only 2002 when the famous River Otter bird was there- this is now my 71st Glossy Ibis in Devon since & I’ve enjoyed seeing every one!
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Juv Curlew Sand at Bowling Green Marsh on the high tide roost this morning - also 2 Knot, Whimbrel ,Green Sand ,Common Sand, sev Bar T Godwits - nearby at Powderham Marsh - 6 Ruff and 1+ Yellow Wagatail plus a mixed flock of c40 Dunlin/Ringed Plover
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