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ESTUARY BIRDS
29th February 2012 The highlight of the past week has been the hundreds of frogs swarming, leaping, plopping and croaking all over Top Pool. I have never seen so many and the sound of their croaking could be heard some way off. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
15th February 2012 A short sea watch from the mouth of the river yielded a Red-throated Diver, several Great Crested Grebes and distant views of Fulmars at Seaton Hole. Returning to the bridge we were treated to ....... (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
31st January 2012 Over the last two weeks the weather has been changeable, alternating between damp and misty but mild, now cold and crisp but sunny. More signs of Spring are everywhere. The catkins, now fully grown are..... (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
15th January 2012 One has to remind oneself that it is only January, not March or April as the birds, trees and plants would have us think. Over the last two weeks Spring has really sprung upon us. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
31st December 2011 HAPPY
NEW YEAR
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ESTUARY BIRDS
15th December 2011 HAPPY
CHRISTMAS!
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ESTUARY BIRDS
30th November 2011 Then came news of a Desert Wheatear, which had the twitchers who had missed out on the Temminck’s Stint all rushing off towards to Mansands, near Brixham.... (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
15th November 2011 Now we’re into the winter, the levels on BHM will be kept higher for a while. This is for the sake of the mud and waders as you can’t have mud full of invertebrates all year round as it will simply dry out. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
31st October 2011 I have seen and found several Eurasian White-fronted Geese from the very same place, and the first thing I noticed when I came across this bird was how dark it was. I knew it was going to be a Greenland even before I saw its bright orange hooter..... (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
15th October 2011 In spite of the lovely un-seasonal weather we have been enjoying, it has not stopped Autumn progressing. Bracken is turning that warm rusty red, and many of the groundcover plants under the trees have died down. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
30th September 2011 ....... it proved to be a Semi-palmated Sandpiper. Definitely a first for the estuary. They breed in Canada and Alaska and winter in the southern states of America and are rare but regular vagrants to western Europe. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
14th September 2011 The species in question has been officially extinct in the UK for the last 60 years and this will be the first confirmed breeding of this beetle ever in mainland Britain. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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ESTUARY BIRDS
31st August 2011 The 23 birds caught during the ringing demonstration on 21st at the Wet and Wild Weekend included seven Sedge Warblers, one of which was a ‘control’ (i.e. ringed elsewhere), one Reed Warbler and three Chiffchaffs. (click here to view complete article .pdf) |
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