01.03.07

On the way home from work I popped into the passage house.

Good numbers of common birds. 8 Canada Geese, 7 Little Grebes, 14 Redshanks, 17 Curlew and 5 Red Breasted Merganser.

I was hoping for a good number of Gulls but the tide was to high. There was Blackbacks and Blackheads but that was all.

26.02.07

Well what a nice day. I went for a bike ride with my boy this morning along the a disused railway that goes from Chudleigh Knighton Heath to Heathfield. Heard a Dipper as it flew down the river Bovey.

After lunch I took the boy to Stover cp. He love it there as do I. We sat and watched the ducks and he chucked some bread at them and himself. I watched Great Crested Grebes on the pond doing their mating dance. A cormorant was sunning itself, very white face on the thing. Tufted Duck and Polchard were diving and swimming on the pond.

We walked around to the picnic tables and sat and watched Chaffs and Tits feeding on the seed left for them. I heard a Greater Spotted woodpecker in the pines so I found it in my bins, as I did a male flew in and mated it. WOW. I have never seen Woodies do this before. I was chuffed.

So we marched onwards.

Around the ariel walkway I could see Siskin feeding on the niger seed in the feeder. Further on Blue, Great and Marsh Tits were feeding in a frenzy around the sunflower seed feeder. Nuthatches and Chaff were also amongst the line up of eagerly waiting bird around the feeder.

Today really felt like spring, can't wait, not long.

23.02.07

Down to the Warren early this morning. But the weather was really taking its toll. Not many birds. Loads of waders though. There were loads of Knot, Dunlin and Grey Plover on finger point. There were Ring Plovers with some Dunlin and Greater Black Back Gulls on the seaward side of the spit.

In front of the hide was a Redshank and Little Egret and 4 Redbreasted Mergansers.

I desided to make my way to the car and found another Little Egret on the path running through Greenland lake.

I did stop at the main pond and found a Grey Heron and Cormarant both sheltering from the wind and feeding.

I was shocked to see how much the sea had taken back along the rune ridge. Look at the photo. On the groyne you can see a klump of sand with marrum grass still attached. The shore line was up to the first point on the klump.