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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 7h

It's not often I get off said backside as only really interested with county ticks and lifers nowadays and cba with chasing after year ticks anymore.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 10h

I very rarely venture out of Mid Devon nowadays but thanks to @markrabailey.bsky.social and @leonwr.bsky.social for persuading me to get off my backside to go and see my first Turtle Dove for Devon.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Another slow day at Ashclyst but did find c15 pied wagtails in a recently ploughed field adjacent to my area which is my 62nd bird for the site 🙂.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't need to leave the house for birding anymore mate 🤣

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Big shock this morning when this Tawny flew into a window. Fortunately it soon recovered and flew off.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Not officially....but birding being birders I bet some keep a note. Anyway being near the bottom is the new cool 🤣.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It would be an honour to be last lol. I'm still below 150 for Devon this year 🤣

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wader wonderland at Seaton today giving me 5 year ticks and propelling me up the Devon year listers chart so that I'm now possibly no longer last 🤣.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Slim pickings at an autumnal Ashclyst today with just Swallows passing overhead and one Spotted Flycatcher. Also patch tick with a Cormorant flying over 💥.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A few pics from a cultural trip to Kenya where birding and animal watching was limited but I still managed about 30 lifers including African Finfoot 😀

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you do then get up real early. At night we often heard Hyenas laughing. We saw most of the animals but missed lions by a day.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You'll love it there. I stayed there for about three nights and couldn't drag myself away from watching the waterhole

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Stuck around my area (Ashclyst) again recently counting Spotted Flycatchers. The reward? I see lots of my favourite Bird but have the lowest 2026 year list in Devon 🤣.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Superb twitch to see the Long Tailed Shrike today - that's my Shrike species wrapped up for the uk 🙂🙂

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

No birding for me today but instead a tour of the Halberton Archaeological dig where a Roman Villa complex has been unearthed along with a partially intact mosaic.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Long session at Ashclyst this morning with 34 bird, 4 mammal and 8 butterfly species.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Nope that part is not on my territory 🤣

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Finally found a Tree Pipit at Ashclyst after 4 years of birding there. My 60th species for that site 😀.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"Desolation" continues to do well and is flapping its wings now.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Had my very own springwatch happening outside my office window these past weeks. Looks like my Carrion Crow chick nicknamed "desolation" 🤣will soon be ready to fledge.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

You both be careful now in strange woods as I know how delicate you are at your ages 😉🤣🤣

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Always a pleasure to see one of these beauties. Fast becoming my all time favourite UK bird.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Three Red Kites in Mid Devon in about the last week or so. There must be a big movement for them to even appear in my birding desert 🤣.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A solid 28 species at Ashclyst mid morning with Red Kite being a new tick for my survey area 🙂. Takes me up to 50 species for the year there and only missing one species someone else has seen there.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You are now gripping me off - stop it 🤣🤣

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A stunning morning at Ashclyst, with just the normal species, but great to see the Crossbill are still hanging in there, with 4 seen today.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Not a bad (but not my very best) visit to the Blackdowns on a very chilly early morning visit - 3 Garden Warblers and a Tree Pipit 😀.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Not so much about the birds at Ashclyst today with 2 Bank Voles and a Weasel seen, along with the masses of Grey Squirrels.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Grafting Ashclyst again today. Mid Devon is hard work compared to North and South Devon but managed to eventually find 3 Crossbills there today - my first of the spring 🙂.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

30 species on a Ashclyst Forest survey this morning, including this Tawny which was being kept awake by the Blackbirds and two Mistle Thrush dive bombing it continually. Two new patch ticks there this week 💪 with Grey Heron flying over two days ago and a Common Whitethroat today.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

2nd lifer of the year for me with Lesser Kestrel today, which was unexpected 😀.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

My first Garden Warblers of the year in the Blackdowns on the way home from a gliding experience for the other half

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

A nice half day trip out of Mid Devon this morning to meet up with my good friends @birdssophie.bsky.social and @34fgsg.bsky.social to see a few Dartmoor specialities 😀.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Went to Winterbourne Down today but dipped Gregory and the Lesser Sported Leprechaun

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

First spring visit to Ashclyst today. Plenty of Chiffchaffs around plus a few Blackcap and one Willow Warbler in sub song. The Highland Cattle are a forest tick for me 🤣

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'll say it again Chris - oh deer 🦌

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I was once told that you can't see everything - can't remember who said that though 🤔

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A Mad Devon Birder and Mid Devon Birder meet up on a chilly but beautiful morning. No migrant birds, but you can't score ticks all the time and it didn't matter with plenty of other things to see including Hares and the stunning views.

View across to Budleigh Salterton with Berry Head visible in the far distance.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Bonaparte's finally on my Devon list today at Saltram after dipping it yesterday when it decided to take a day trip to South Huish.

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Mid Devon Birder @middevonbirder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Experienced my second dip of the year. Wonder what my third will be.....?🤔

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