A visit for the evening tide after the rain saw a new Devon record count of six Caspian Gull, all 1cy & photographed, on Finger Point, with at least 87 Great Black-backed and eight Mediterranean Gull and the adult Spoonbill earlier seen at Bowling Green.
Prior to 2025 there had been 17 Caspian Gull at the Warren, with the first in April 2014; assuming duplication with the birds reported yesterday, there have been 14 birds so far this year.
Also in the estuary single Common Tern and Spotted Redshank, c300 Curlew, 206 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, with 10 juveniles, 160+ Dunlin, 95 Turnstone, 31 Bar-tailed Godwit, 26 Knot, 15 Sanderling, 14 Greenshank, 13 Grey Plover, three Pintail with the Wigeon and Teal, a Kingfisher and a Whimbrel.
The 10 Eider remain offshore with 850 Kittiwake, 210 Gannet and a Manx Shearwater south.
Ringing News: Two of the Caspian Gull were ringed, one from Germany and one from Holland, with them were Great Black-backed Gull from France, Cornwall and Portland and a Herring Gull also from Portland.
In The Bight were two Dutch ringed Dark-bellied Brent Geese, one wearing a satellite collar.
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