Sea defence works along on the dune ridge continue to
restrict access to the hide and Warren Point.
The golf course is not a public right of way. Please follow signs and access guidance from
staff.
In only a light southwesterly and scattered showers, the
sea produced the goods when flocks combined to form a group of nine Pomarine
Skua, many ‘spooned’, which departed S before 07:00; the highest day count ever
here for the month of August. Ten
shearwaters were too distant to identify, three Great Crested Grebe and a juv
Great Northern Diver was an early record.
Selected counts over high tide, 47 Ringed Plover, 31+
Dunlin, 25 Sanderling, 20 Mediterranean Gull (15 adult/ ss, 1 fs, 4 juv), 16+
Whimbrel, four Greenshank and juv Little Ringed Plover was in The Bight. The first juv Little Tern of the year sported
a darvic ring from the colony at Kilcoole, mid-east coast of Ireland. Large
numbers of Black-headed Gulls, Sandwich Terns and Common Terns feasted on vast
shoals of sprats in the estuary, reportedly forced inshore by mackerel. Among them, an interesting ‘marsh tern’ was
seen distantly from Exmouth, see later posts…
Highlights from the bushes, single Willow Warbler, Garden
Warbler and Wheatear.
Wildlife News: a small pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphin early
morning and a pod of 20 Common Dolphin late morning, a scarce species here.
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