Guided Bird Watching Cruises
Guided Bird Watching with Dave Smallshire, 4th March 2015
Another lovely sunny morning with fabulous light showing up the glossy green of the Shags and drake Red-breasted Mergansers to best effect. Rather few of the former are in the estuary now, most of them being back on their breeding cliffs, but there are still lots of Mergansers. Groups of five then six Great Crested…
Read MoreGuided Bird Watching with Dave Smallshire on Sunday 1st March
Another lovely sunny morning for the cruise, with a fresh westerly wind. Shag numbers have declined as the breeding season approaches, but there were still some nice adults sporting crests in the outer part of the estuary. The Spotted Redshank was with half a dozen Greenshanks off Powderham and several groups of Sanderlings fed along…
Read MoreReviews of 17th, 18th and 19th February Bird Watching Cruises with Ian Waite
Three consecutive trips with some sightings common to them all, particularly the Avocets. It has been a privilege to experience the aerial ballet performed by these magnificent birds as they flew alongside both sides of the boat, in front and behind the boat and overhead. One of nature’s wonders on our doorstep. It was a…
Read MoreGuided Bird Watching
This week we had three guided bird watching cruises on the beautiful River Exe. We were very lucky with the weather on both Tuesday and Wednesday, but despite the poor conditions of yesterday’s trip there was still plenty to see. With these trips lasting approximately 3 hours there is lots of chance to spot the…
Read MoreWednesday 4th February Bird Watching Cruise with Ian Waite
Before we left our mooring a Kingfisher flew past into the Marina reflecting the sunshine that stayed with us throughout. The Avocets were again impressive but more spread out. There were hundreds on the mudflats interspersed with many Shelduck, Dunlin, Curlew and Grey Plovers, a good demonstration of the large number of birds we have…
Read MoreGuided Bird Watching Cruise, Saturday 31st January with Dave Smallshire
A strong northerly wind seemed to keep most of the birds at the sheltered northern end of the estuary today, but the rain missed us and we sailed in lovely sunshine. A Sanderling and some Turnstones were notable as we passed the dunes at Dawlish Warren, though a distant group of Knot on the mud…
Read MoreBird Watching trip report – Sunday 1st February
A lovely cold but sunny day with good light ideal for the several photographers on board. A Seal was beside the boat as we left and a second one seen at Topsham. Avocets in their hundreds in flight glistening in the sunlight at Topsham were probably everybody’s highlight. although there were many other birds to…
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