Yearlist Week 2

Week 2

A bit of a slow week birding-wise, but one decent outing to the exe made for a sufficient return of species.

Linnets in scrub at Dawlish Warren, Jan 9th

Very distant Sanderlings in the Bight

Precisely three quiet visits to Dawlish Warren somehow failed to yield a cirl bunting, but a couple yearticks were seen. And Kiera found a velvet scoter!

Red-throated Diver off the Warren, Jan 10th


On January 12th we visited Exminster marshes and walked from there to Starcross, seeing 77 species throughout the course of the day, making it the highest day count of 2026 so far

White-fronted Goose at Turf, Jan 12th


Highlights of the week included white-fronted goose, velvet scoter, spotted redshank, red-breasted merganser, water rail, grey plover, golden plover, bar-tailed godwit, knot, marsh harrier, sanderling, common scoter & red-throated diver

Other wildlife - A random House Mouse spotted by Kiera from the bus was an unusual species to pick up

House Mouse in Teignmouth, Jan 13th

Seawatching from Dawlish Warren seawall


Best self-found birds of the week - Spotted Redshank for myself, Velvet Scoter for Kiera

Bird Year List: 107

Animal Year List: 120

Water Rail by Kiera, Jan 12th

White-fronted Geese at Turf, Jan 12th

Spotted Redshank at Exminster, Jan 12th

Golden Plover flock in flight, Jan 12th



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2026 Yearlist Week One

Image
After 2025’s “big year” failure due to not passing driving I didn’t really have any major plans for 2026, but out of nowhere I got some motivation to really give it a go right before new year. I think that pre-new years feeling got me excited for a new list, and last year’s small count of 177 despite trying in both winter and early autumn showed me that if you “leave it till you can drive” you won’t see much at all. With plans of finding somewhere to live and going to uni this year I don’t intend to try any crazy yearlist, but I think I’ll defo give it a better go than 2025! So I set out with considering the context, a fairly lofty target of 100 species of bird in the first week. Perhaps unsurprisingly on the final hurdle of the week I fell far short, hoping for 7 yearticks I only managed 2! So my bird yearlist at the end of week one now sits at 95 species, just falling below my best of 99 species in my first week of 2023. I dipped far more rare birds than I saw, but the highlights I d...
Read more