Friday, 7 February 2025

Wednesday 5th February

 Todays pictures are of a bird not native to our lands but it is a new bird for my photo list as I have never photographed this species anywhere in the world before Swan Goose  .

Not a lot else to report but a look at the Exminster Marshes got me Great Scaup , Common Pochard and a Green Sandpiper .

Swan Goose ( Anser cygnoides ) . Bowling Green Marsh . Topsham . Devon


 


 

Thursday, 30 January 2025

Water Pipit

A quick visit to the Otter Estuary got me a Water Pipit on my 4th try this year 😀 Also seen were 2 Meadow Pipit , 12 Common Ringed Plover , a Common Kestrel and a male and female Common Stonechat .

Also seen was a nice display of Otter tracks on the mud under White Bridge . Great to know one at least is about on the River Otter .

Common Stonechat ( Saxicola torquatus ) . The Otter Estuary . Devon


 

29th January

 Birding Somerset

Our 1st stop of the day was at the RSPB Reserve at Greylake but there was not a lot on show with only 5 Water Rail and a Cetti`s Warbler worth talking about                                                                                   So we went on to the Ham Wall Reserve where the birding was a bit better and we saw numerous Gadwall , 5 Great White Egret , 2 Egyptian Geese , a few Western Marsh Harrier , a Great Bittern was seen in flight and another 4 were heard booming . We then went to the Sharpham Lane area of Ham Wall were we saw 100+ Greylag Geese and a ( Russian ) Greater White Fronted Goose .

Our last stop of a good days birding  was at Swell Wood with 2 distant Common Crane .

Todays photos are 2 of our beautiful common birds that we all take for granted .

Blue Tit ( Cyanistes caeruleus ) . Ham Wall . Somerset