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| 20251214 Hopes Nose Looking across Babbacombe Bay early morn. As every Devon patch Birder would arguably say... 'its hardly worth it'... but was it? Admiral Raptor's quote of the day: 'Not quite 'proper job' country, but near enough.' An interesting point as most weekends were spent in Penwith after 10 years of Devon... |
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| 20251214 Cirl Bunting Paired birds... |
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| 20251214 Cirl Bunting 3 males in song mid-winter... |
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| 20251214 Common Raven |
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| 20251212 Lesser Crested Tern Bird flew up estuary and landed on mud bank towards Lympstone Barracks. Preferred to perch on low objects and buoys. Shot at 1680mm. |
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| 20251212 LC Tern Shot taken with 1.4x telecon and x2 digi-zoom, effective 3360mm... Very useful for in the field ID but much frowned upon by Photographers. And some Twitchers... Bird 1.5Km off Turf at this point as above. |
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| 20251212 LC Tern The bird, all of a sudden, flew over to Turf's buoys as billed... The bill showed orange-ish with sunlight through it. |
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| 20251212 Lesser Crested Tern Take off from one of the closer pink buoys. |
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| 20251212 Lesser Crested Tern Yellow bill becoming deeper towards base. |
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| 20251212 LC Tern |
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| 20251212 LC Tern Paler grey rump. |
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| 20251212 Turf Quay The bird is on the nearer green buoy. 28mm equiv. |
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| 20251213 Exe Estuary Twitchers arriving on the fateful misty Saturday morn... Greyscale. |
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| 20251213 Exe Estuary Mist with colour. Ice formed outside and inside the tent... after one very cold clear night the bird had gone. |
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| 20251213 Northern Chiffchaff c10 in Warrens Carr. Palest bird shown. |
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| 20251213 Northern Chiffchaff Same bird as above. |
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| 20251205 C Eider 8 males displaying to 3 females in the harbour. |
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| 20251205 C Eider |
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| 20251205 C Eider Female. |
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| 20251205 Snow Bunting 3 of 5 on Spike Island. |
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| 20251205 Snow Bunting Some males show black primary coverts... |
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| 20251205 Snow Bunting Ad female on left. |
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| 20251205 Rock Pipit Flock of c20 Belhaven Bay feeding on tide line. As Scanda flock on Norfolk coast. |
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| 20251205 Bridge to Nowhere Belhaven Bay with The Bass in the background. |