A big thank you to Lee who got straight back to me with info on this Avocet. It was one of eight birds in the Duckpond this morning and ringed in Noorderdijk, the Netherlands in May 2021. Lee saw it at the Warren yesterday which was the first UK recovery. Apparently it has a GPS tracker hidden somewhere!
Orcombe early - 5 Red-throated Divers, 4 Great Northern Divers, 3 Common Scoters and 4 Great Crested Grebes. Mudbank - 23 Turnstones, c175 Common Gulls, 2 Mediterranean Gulls and 4 Red-breasted Mergansers. The Duckpond - 8 Avocets. A Chiffchaff was along Camperdown Terrace and a female Blackcap was in our front garden.
Yesterday - 2 Great Northern Divers off Maer Rocks. Phear Park - a singing Mistle Thrush and 1 Nuthatch. Nearby in the brook - a Male Blackcap, 1 Chiffchaff and 2 Grey Wagtails. Off Mudbank - 1 Avocet and 57 Redshank. Blackhill Quarry - 2 Goosanders, 9 Tufted Ducks, 1+ Little Grebe, 1 Coot and 1 Redpoll.
30/1 - Mudbank - my first Cetti's Warbler of the year, 1 Avocet and 37 Redshank.
Shag - Exmouth seafront.
Two Great Northern Divers catching crabs off Maer Rocks.
