Meadow Pipit - Orcombe Point. At least 30 grounded but no overheads.
Yet another quiet morning on Orcombe with absolutely no overhead movement despite clear skies. I recorded 1 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Chiffchaffs, 1 Snipe, 4 Stock Doves, 35+ Skylarks, 30+ Meadow Pipits, 12+ Song Thrushes and 14+ Blackbirds.
A late afternoon look off Mudbank produced counts of 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, 17+ Great Crested Grebes, c130 Dunlin, c75 Turnstones, 45+ Grey Plovers, 45+ Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 5+ Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Black-tailed Godwits and 30+ Little Egrets.
Yesterday - my first Goldeneye of the autumn - a distant female-type late afternoon.
Lapwing - Orcombe 13/11/24.
13/11 - Orcombe - 2 Egyptian Geese east, 1 Firecrest, c35 Skylarks, 1 Lapwing, c260 Woodpigeons, 11 Stock Doves, 1 Snipe and 17+ Chaffinches.
Mudbank - 6 Red-breasted Mergansers, 3 Grey Plovers, 3 Ringed Plovers, 8+ Bar-tailed Godwits, 32+ Teal and a Peregrine that predated another Bar-tailed Godwit.
Nearby at West Lodge - 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Stonechat and 3 Chiffchaffs.
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