Guided Bird Watching Cruises

This was the last cruise of a successful season, with almost 30 Guided Birdwatching Cruise on the Exe, with over 3000 thousand people have been able to enjoy the winter wildlife spectacle with Stuart Line Cruises, and we thank all you passengers for coming with us, getting involved and valuing the birds on show. Today’s weather…

March sees the departure of many birds from the Exe to their breeding grounds, but today there were more than enough birds of the estuary to provide both numbers and variety to the eager birdwatchers on board the Pride of Exmouth. Signs of spring were on show, such as Cormorants in their white-necked breeding plumage…

The weather was fine dry and the sun made visibility good, however there was showers in the forecast but all was well on board The Pride of Exmouth with Captain Will at the helm. We set sail on another great Birding trip up the estuary with, again great company on board. As the tide was…

It was a beautiful afternoon to be out on the estuary, with clear skies, bright sunshine and agentle south-easterly breeze. The new moon combined and high atmospheric pressurebrought a very low tide which held us up at Starcross for a while, but we had a grand time ofit all the same, enjoying the lovely weather…

Setting off this afternoon into pleasant sunshine we had an enjoyable time of things as we cruisedup to Topsham and back. Overall bird numbers had dropped from their mid-winter peak but therewas still good variety to be seen and the light was lovely. Cormorants and Shags were both very obvious in the lower estuary, the…

The Meteorological office had promised a blustery day of sunshine and showers, and that is what we enjoyed as we cruised up the estuary on the incoming tide, with a brisk cross-wind to keep Skipper Richard busy. A surprise starter bird was a single Red-throated Diver, close to the boat in the channel behind Dawlish…

Today’s early start at 10-30am was well timed for the best weather, with mirror-calm sea and bright sunshine. A single Great Northern Diver put in an appearance in the channel opposite Exmouth shortly after we had left the dock. As the tide started to flood, the lower parts of Estuary did not hold many birds…

With the wind picking up today there was a serious chill in the air but again our hardy visitors were up for the challenge and all dressed up in their thermals and ready to go! We headed along the seafront first with Pole Sand well uncovered Oystercatchers a few Curlews and plenty of Herring Gulls…

There was a real chill in the air but our hardy visitors were up for the challenge and all dressed up and ready to go! We headed along the seafront first with Pole Sand well uncovered Oystercatchers a few Curlews and plenty of Herring Gulls on view As we encountered Shelly beach area DB Brent…

It was another cold and overcast day but pleasantly calm as we set out from Exmouth a littleafter 12:30pm. The shingle beds of Pole Sands held good numbers of Oystercatchers andCurlews as usual and the sharp-eyed on board picked out a few Eider out on the sea beyondthe distant surf line. Moving up the estuary…