Great seawatch at #BerryHead #Devon 0545-1025hrs Highlights: 1 ad Sabine’s Gull, 1 Little Gull, 1 Little Tern, 2-3 E Storm Petrels, 878 Manxies, 3 GN Divers, 6 Puffins, 120+ Kittiwakes including 44 1st Summers, 1 Yellow Wagtail. Lots of Octopus being caught by crabbing boat.
I've just advertised my spring/summer and autumn guided wildlife cruises from Torbay and Kingswear/Dartmouth #Devon including the popular 6hr Lyme Bay pelagics - for details see: mikelangman.co.uk/guided-cruis...
They book up quickly...
A sinensis 'continental' Cormorant at Stoke Gabriel Mill pond #Torbay this morning.
My best effort on the Black-throated Diver off Brixham Breakwater found the day before by @seaskywatch.bsky.social still lots of Great Northern Divers too, flocks of 80+ Shags feeding out there with again flocks of Cormorants too the bay must be full of food.
I am giving a talk on the Birds of Devon this evening 7 pm (17 June 2026) at the Quince Honey Farm, South Tawton, Devon including Dartmoor Cuckoo chicks with their Meadow Pipit foster parents. quincehoneyfarm.co.uk/experience/e...
Well done Jake!!
The Yellow-browed Warbler at Broadsands #Torbay showed well from time to time in the 2nd car park - I assume it's the same bird that showed in the trees above the Cirl Bunting feeding station an hour later.
At Broadsands #Torbay a Yellow-browed Warbler was in willows and scrub at the back of the 2nd car park near to the green skip, also in same place 2 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff.
Boom! All the 'red-tailed shrikes' done in Suffolk this year with Isabelline Shrike at N Warren this afternoon. Made sweeter as it is a grip back for me too, having missed the previous birds. No matter what anyone says to me, I can't see such pale birds not being isabellinus
Coots Fulica atra feeding their young at Clennon Valley Lakes, Paignton, Devon yesterday plus a very unusual family - a pair of Coots with a Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula duckling! Not sure what has happened here but fascinating to watch. Thanks @clennonvalley.bsky.social
