Saturday 4 January 2014

GND in estuary

I began this morning with a scan of the lower estuary off Polly Steps, and soon picked up a Great Northern Diver swimming close to the Back Beach along with 10 Red-breasted Merganser. Once the tide had fallen slightly, a look offshore produced another GND, three auk sp. south and a Great Crested Grebe. Moving up the estuary to Flow Point, 26 Shelduck, 53 Linnet and two Rock Pipit were foraging on the saltmarsh and a Common Sandpiper flew upstream.

Yesterday late afternoon the flooded fields at Teigngrace held 79 Canada Goose, 65 Mallard, 4 Little Egret, 3 Mute Swan and a drake Gadwall (the Decoy Gadwall was also seen yesterday so this is a different bird).

2 comments:

  1. Have you ever had a look at the marshland behind the Vauxhall garage on the Bovey Tracey road? Looking at it on google maps, there seems to be a lake there which I don't think I've ever noticed when walking up through jetty marsh. Looks like it could be viewable from near the hospital car park.

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  2. I know where you mean but I'm not sure if access is very good, will have to check it out next weekend

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