The view from the Pavillions carpark late this afternoon. The Velvet Scoter was very distant.
A late afternoon text from Mark and I managed to get distant views of the Warren's Velvet Scoter. I'd tried earlier this morning but a thick bank of mist, creeping out from the river, meant my plans were scuppered. Thank you Mark.
Otherwise today - Maer Rocks - 7+ Purple Sandpipers, 5+ Turnstones, 1 Red-throated Diver, 2 Common Scoters and 31 Brent Geese. The Common Scoters were my first in Exmouth, this year - a bit shocking for a species that's normally quite hard to miss!
Douglas Avenue - 7 Ring-necked Parakeets and 1 Blackcap.
Orcombe Point - the female Cirl Bunting, 3 Song Thrushes, 3 Snipe and 2 Little Egrets.
Shelly Beach - the male Black Redstart still, 1 Great Crested Grebe and 4 Red-breasted Mergansers.
Withycombe Raleigh Common - 2+ Yellowhammers, 3+ Dartford Warblers, 1 Redpoll, 8+ Redwings and 37+ Fieldfares. The thrushes were feeding on the archery club football pitches.
Mudbank - 13 Wigeon, 3 Pintail, 85 Mallard, 5 Bar-tailed Godwits, 1 Greenshank, 6 Redshank, 40+ Dunlin, 30+ Turnstones and 1 Sanderling.
One of two or three Yellowhammers, feeding unobtrusively on the edge of WRC - their presence betrayed by some quiet calls.
The female Cirl Bunting is still beside the dung heap.
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