An immature Spoonbill feeding along the Railway Saltmarsh on the rising tide was presumably one of the two wintering birds moving between the Otter and Teign Estuaries. Also in the estuary counts included 1,080 Dunlin, 330 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 133 Shelduck, 121 Grey and 37 Ringed Plover, 84 Bar and three Black-tailed Godwit, 66 Wigeon, 65 Knot, 58 Teal, 31 Sanderling, 25 Turnstone, seven Greenshank, two Avocet, two Red-breasted Merganser and an adult Mediterranean Gull.
Elsewhere a Grey Phalarope was feeding distantly off the seawall late afternoon with 28 Great Crested Grebe, six Common Scoter and three Great Northern Diver, three Shoveler were at the Main Pond with 35 Linnet around The Bight.
88. Spoonbill
Other Wildlife: Although milder, with the exception of a lone queen Common Wasp Vespula vulgaris, it wasn't a day for flying insects. Hiding away under various logs were the barkflies Graphopsocus cruciatus and Pteroxanium kelloggi, the springtails Tomocerus vulgaris and Dicyrtomina ornata and a Blunt-tailed Snake Millipede Cylindroiulus punctatus.
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| Dicyrtomina ornata - Alan Keatley |
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| Pteroxanium kelloggi - Alan Keatley |
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| Tomocerus vulgaris - Alan Keatley |
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