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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some of the birds from yesterday's pelagic led by Mike Langman on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. Arctic Skua looking for Kittiwakes to harass. Manx Shearwater Yellow-legged Gull Juvenile Gannet

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some great birds seen on the River Dart from the African Queen Dartmouth on a trip led by Mike Langman. Osprey, a juvenile, resting in a dead tree. Peregrine Falcons, female and male, at the mouth of the river. Kingfishers, several seen, this one a male.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The hybrid Med x Black-h Gull was back again at #Broadsands #Torbay this am. Typical plumage traits of the few I've recorded over the years. The last 3-4 years undoubtedly the same individual the main difference to when it first arrived is the black dot on P9 is much smaller now.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thanks Roy - a cracking shot of the Manxie - shame the few Balearics didn’t come close on Saturday.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Broadsands #Torbay was interesting on 2 Sept with a Little Gull + this hybrid Mediterranean x Black-headed Gull - picked out as it was dip feeding with 40+ Blk-h Gulls off the beach by its white underwings and b/w tipped primaries otherwise close to Blk-h Gull!

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Berry Head seawatch with Bill Macdonald and Mark Bailey 06.45-9am: 2 Egyptian Geesse (!), 1 Sabines Gull juv, 2 Little gulls, 1 Black Tern, 1 Sooty Shearwater, 102 Balearic & 107 Manx Shearwaters, 2 ArcTerns, 521 ComTerns, 7 SandwichTerns, 18 Arctic Skuas, 1 Whimbrel, 200+ Gannets, 6 Fulmar, 2000+

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Shearwaters seen from Kelly's Hero on a pelagic trip led by Mike Langman out of Brixham. 1. Sooty Shearwater 2. Balearic Shearwater 3 + 4. Manx Shearwater

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excellent pelagic trip today, led by Mike Langman, who spotted three Great Skuas on the sea. We were on board Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. Bonxies as they are known, have been heavily depleted by avian flu and are much rarer than they were a few years ago.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A wonderful cruise out into Lyme Bay yesterday @KellysheroDavid : 1 Sooty, 130+ Balearic, 600+ Manx Shearwaters, Little Gull, 3 Bonxies, 3-4 Arctic Skuas, 4 Yellow-legged Gulls, rafting Common Terns many Com Dolphins, 5+ Harbour Porpoise. bonxie pic from Bill Coulson

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think this Risso's Dolphin is a young one. It has caught an Octopus which is intent on not being eaten. It dived and we didn't see the final outcome but it probably didn't end well for the Octopus. Risso's have no top teeth and only a few lower ones so they swallow their prey whole!

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yet again this morning @BerryHead, the Risso's & 300+ Common Dolphin and 2 Harbour Porpoise. Fantastic to see a large pod of Common Dolphins speeding along .110+ Balearic Shearwaters rafting and feeding with 550+ Manx Shearwaters plus many Kittiwakes and Gannets.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's difficult to get shots of flying Dragonflies with a bridge (super-zoom) camera but with my RX10 4 I did eventually get a few crisp shots of this Migrant Hawker at Clennon Lakes #Torbay

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the Risso's Dolphins were again just off Berry Head this morning at least 8 plus 70-80 Common Dolphins, 80+ Balearic Shearwaters and 130+ Manx Shearwaters.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

120+ Common Dolphins and 8 Risso's Dolphins off Berry Head this morning. Also several rafts (approx 100 in total) of what appeared to be virtually all Balearic Shearwaters although there were some Manx and more Balearic Shearwaters flying in the area too

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Berry Head Seawatch this morning for just 1hr 6.45-7.45am, best birds: 2 Bonxies, 1 Arctic Skua, 66 Balearic (including a raft of 47) & 71 Manx Shearwaters, 68 Comic Terns, 33 Sandwich Terns, 1200+ Kittiwakes, 3 juv YL Gulls, 270+ Gannets. 50 Common Dolphin, 2 Harbour Porpoise.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls have been a bit thin on the ground this summer around the #Torbay Beaches this one at #Goodrinton this morning was good to see.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Checking on the small kittiwake colony, looks like 2 of the chicks have fledged since 17Jul with 4 chicks left. One Kittiwake juvenile with adults alongside just off #BerryHead & the same or another juv was seen nearby. So confirmation of fledging for the first time at Berry Head since mid 1980s.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

one of my own cruises from Brixham on Kelly’s Hero 08.30am – 2.30pm highlights: 1 Wilson’s Storm Petrel, 5-6 European Storm Petrels, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls juvs, hundred ++ Common Dolphins, Sunfish, Manx Shearwaters, 50+ Mediterranean Gulls, Sandwich Terns, Common Tern

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Checking today on the very precious #BerryHead kittiwake chicks the upper 3 nests with 4 chicks are virtually ready to fledge - a lot of flapping in nearly full wings. The lower nest with 2 chicks are at least 1 week behind.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

At least 4x Kittiwakes nests still have young @ Berry Head. 6 young 4 well developed about a week away from fledging and 1 nest with 2x quite small still downy young. Successful fledging at Berry Head has not been documented since the 1980's!

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

5-6 chicks still on kittiwake nests at #BerryHead #Devon if they get to fledge it will be the first to do so on site for over 20 years!! Keeping my fingers crossed- but from 30+ nests this year still very poor productivity.

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I am giving a talk on the Birds of Devon this evening 7 pm (17 June 2026) at the Quince Honey Farm, South Tawton, Devon including Dartmoor Cuckoo chicks with their Meadow Pipit foster parents. quincehoneyfarm.co.uk/experience/e...

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Coots Fulica atra feeding their young at Clennon Valley Lakes, Paignton, Devon yesterday plus a very unusual family - a pair of Coots with a Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula duckling! Not sure what has happened here but fascinating to watch. Thanks @clennonvalley.bsky.social

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Great seawatch at #BerryHead #Devon 0545-1025hrs Highlights: 1 ad Sabine’s Gull, 1 Little Gull, 1 Little Tern, 2-3 E Storm Petrels, 878 Manxies, 3 GN Divers, 6 Puffins, 120+ Kittiwakes including 44 1st Summers, 1 Yellow Wagtail. Lots of Octopus being caught by crabbing boat.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My best effort on the Black-throated Diver off Brixham Breakwater found the day before by @seaskywatch.bsky.social still lots of Great Northern Divers too, flocks of 80+ Shags feeding out there with again flocks of Cormorants too the bay must be full of food.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A sinensis 'continental' Cormorant at Stoke Gabriel Mill pond #Torbay this morning.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The Yellow-browed Warbler at Broadsands #Torbay showed well from time to time in the 2nd car park - I assume it's the same bird that showed in the trees above the Cirl Bunting feeding station an hour later.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

At Broadsands #Torbay a Yellow-browed Warbler was in willows and scrub at the back of the 2nd car park near to the green skip, also in same place 2 Firecrest, 1 Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff.

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Brian Small @cach22.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Boom! All the 'red-tailed shrikes' done in Suffolk this year with Isabelline Shrike at N Warren this afternoon. Made sweeter as it is a grip back for me too, having missed the previous birds. No matter what anyone says to me, I can't see such pale birds not being isabellinus

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

First there for a little while - at one point I thought they might prove to be a permanent feature at Slapton!

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

With a SE mod breeze and rain in early Nov should drop something in the bushes. Still gutted I left a few minutes too early on our seawatch Mark, I’ve seen many more Pallas’s than Leaches Petrels off Berry Head!!

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A Pallas's Warbler showed up briefly in the bottom of Berry Head quarry today but no sign afterward, despite 2hrs of searching! Also 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Firecrests and 8-10 Goldcrests. Also from a few days ago in 5th Nov at Clennon Lakes Torbay a Siberian Chiffchaff with an influx of 16+ chiffchaffs

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Mark D @seaskywatch.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

‪Berry Hd 0700-1100: Leach's Storm-petrel (10:20), 2 Manx, juv Arctic Tern, 16k Kittiwakes, 27 Med Gulls, 35 Cn Gulls, c6,000 Razorbill/Guillemot, juv (pale type) Pomarine Skua, 5 Arctic, 5 Bonxie, 2 GN Diver, Red-t Diver, c20 Cn Dolphin, 4 H Porpoise, 2 ABF Tuna with @clennonvalley.bsky.social

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Must be a really good year for cage fungus I clocked up 9 this morning around Berry Head including 3 in one clump! @jacob-wood.bsky.social

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

On the way back from the #BerryHead seawatch yesterday @jacob-wood.bsky.social spotted this cage fungus growing on the side of the quarry track. He then found another 6 or 7 near to the navigational beacon !

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Berry Head #Devon seawatch with @jacob-wood.bsky.social 0740-10.40am: 4800 + auks sp. 11 Puffin, 2 Sooty, 2 Balearic & 12 Manx Shearwaters, 1200+ Kittiwake, 64 Med Gulls, 1 Y- l Gull, 1 Arctic Skua, 8 Gadwall. @seaskywatch.bsky.social arrived as we were leaving….

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Osprey, a juvenile, with a freshly caught Mullet seen over the River Dart yesterday on a great cruise on the African Queen from Kingswear/ Dartmouth. Guide Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

River Dart cruise on African Queen. Guide Mike Langman. @clennonvalley.bsky.social Yellow Flagged Curlew C5 over a red band on left leg. On right leg is an orange (?) ring. I'll do a bit of digging, it may be a headstarted bird. 2. Peregrine overhead. 3 + 4. Lots of Buzzards over the river.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A few places going on my rescheduled, very last, River Dart 'Osprey cruise on Monday 6th October at 11.30am cruise lasts for 4 hrs cost £43 . Tuesdays Cruise: Osprey, Kingfishers, Hobby, Peregrine, Great Egret, Little Egrets, Harbour & Grey Seals Stunning scenery etc..etc..!

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Back from Mallorca - now struggling to identify this very plain looking Lizard - it doesn't seen to match the descriptions of the two true lizards found on the island.. Any one help with identity..? It was probably about 8'' or more in total length. it looks more like an Algyroides - introduced?

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Brilliant pelagic trip yesterday led by @clennonvalley.bsky.social on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. Grey Phalarope Sabine's Gull juvenile Sooty Shearwater European Storm Petrel

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Rare treat ! White-beaked Dolphins seen on a @clennonvalley.bsky.social pelagic trip on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. These White-beaks were just off Berry Head. @Saunders

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Berry Head 12:30-17:00, first 3h unwisely spent in hide with 0 sightings other than a bloxworth snout (📷), then 90 mins at the quarry where @clennonvalley.bsky.social found me a bonxie (year ✅), plus 25+ balearics, 15+ manxie, 1 c tern, 1 guille, 70 kitt, 6 fulmar, & cmn dolphins #devonbirds

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

After watching Ospreys on my guided Dart 'Osprey' Cruise and telling the group to look out for possible Glossy Ibis's this happens!! I estimated 70 but there were 91! perhaps the Wadebridge flock? at least 3 Ospreys, Kingfisher Mandarin Ducks, Common Sandpipers too.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Looks like I'm going to cancel my guided Dart Osprey cruise tomorrow, rescheduling for Friday am for a 0930hrs start from Kingswear or Dartmouth several of the original trip can't make the Friday so I have several vacant spaces of interested please message me ASAP £43.

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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Jacob Wood @jacob-wood.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Berry Head 06:45-18:00 14 Great Shearwater, 3 Cory's Shearwater, 1 Sooty, c200 Balearic, c340 Manx, 28 Arctic Skua, 3 Bonxie,72 Sandwich Tern, 27 Common Tern (+8 'commic'). Also 5 Yellow Wagtail over first thing. #devonbirds #ukbirding

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Some of the sightings from the pelagic trip led by @clennonvalley.bsky.social on Kelly's Hero out of Brixham. Yellow-legged Gull One from a pod of Common Dolphins Manx Shearwater Part of a flock of Common Terns Other birds seen: Balearic Shearwater, Black Tern, Gannets, Kittiwakes

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