Devon Birds
I haven't been posting a while due to technical difficulties - hopefully they are fixed! My first trip this year takes me to the South East coast of Devon, to see the fantastic birdlife which is around at this time of year. RSPB Bowling Green Marsh is a small reserve, with many pools and scrapes. Around the edge of one of the pools was this Snipe, hunkered down, trying not to be seen. Snipe are one of my favourite wading birds, they are so beautiful! Soon, it was joined by another Snipe. They probed around in the wet grassland for a while, then waded across to the edge of a lagoon. The main species on the pools at Bowling Green Marsh was Black-tailed Godwit, driven here by the rising tide from the Exe Estuary, where they were feeding. A little further down the Exe Estuary is Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve, which is a mix of estuarine, coastal and dune habitat. The spit at Dawlish Warren sticks out across the mouth of the Exe Estuary, and at high tide is a fan...