@axebirder.bsky.social Hi Steve. Looking at Devon limosa & found your blog about a candidate in 2017.
What a strange bird!
Did you ever do anything with it?
One worry from me- my understanding from others & pics is limosa should be well into winter plum by mid Sept Your bird looks q fresh?
New report from Exeter Cycling Campaign just out: options for Dryden Road.
A large HGV is shown on a wide road. A shared path for people walking & cycling lines each side of the road with no marked crossing when the cycle/walking path ends on one side
Did you repond to the Exminster consult'n?
Thank you
Good news! All 6 proposals got strong support.
Teignbridge HATOC report recommends ALL 6 proposals are progressed:
✅new parallel crossing on E2 🚴route
✅new🦓 crossing in the village
Link to the HATOC reports pack: share.google/k8Xx6t51y5ql...
How easy is it to cycle around some of our towns and cities? I got on my bike to find out
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Great to see our chair, James Diamond, along with the Rifford Road cycling path, starring in this piece by Spotlight on the varying quality of active travel infrastructure in Exeter and Plymouth.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
X46 is a Dutch bird which was ringed as a chick in 2024.
Well done the counters.
Fantastic achievement. More needed. Well done Exeter Cycling Campaign and Devon County Council.
Male House Sparrow sat on a fence facing left with a beakful of sawfly larvae
Lovely that we still have a nice House Sparrow colony around The Turf, Exminster Marshes RSPB.
This male was feeding just fledged youngsters with sawfly larvae (I think)
#devonbirds
Over 1,000 people a day, including over 300 children, are using the new Rifford Road separated pedestrian and cycle path and safe crossings, a new survey shows – that’s over half a million miles of safe and easy journeys on bikes, scooters, wheelchairs and mobility scooters every year. 🚶♀️👨🦽🚴♀️🛴🧵
Given it is now in its third year, I guess it might have tried to breed this year & failed, and is back for the winter
Yes that's the one. Link was to Devon & Cornwall Wader Ringing Group site, which has the details for that bird.
That third book looks lile this one, from Dorset?
Devon and Cornwall Wader Ringing Group - Curlew FJ89842 share.google/tFxRMVuqNvu3...
A female Shoveler with a brood of very small young swimming on shallow water with short grass in the background
A female Shoveler with a brood of small young swimming on shallow water with green grass in the background
Female Shoveler with a brand new brood of ten lovely mini-diggers at RSPB Exminster Marshes this evening #devonbirds
Pair of Oystercatchers plus two well-grown chicks June 2025
Colour-ringed Curlew RG at Exminster Marshes. Last seen exactly three months ago on 14 March. Presumably a failed breeder.
That time of year when waders start to move.
Wader chicks still running around at Exminster Marshes RSPB, whilst the first migrant colour-ringed Curew are returning from breeding grounds.
Hi Simon
What were the tags? Was it a Dutch bird with a white leg flag?
Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
Could you do your bit & email your Councillors this weekend to ask what has happened since the original motion was passed?
A female Shoveler, the focus of attention for five drakes at a wetland in Northumberland this week. She appeared to be paired with one, so that’s a ‘probable breeding’ record.
DUCKS: by this time of spring most ducks will have settled at potential breeding sites. So all records of scarce & rare breeding ducks, including Shoveler, Wigeon, Garganey, Pintail, Pochard and Red-breasted Merganser, should be submitted, with breeding evidence, to the relevant county recorder
Three bicycles locked to a bike rack next to a blue RSPB sign
Think there was a Temminck's twitch on this evening, bike parking full....
Yellow post-it note saying "In case you missed it"
One evening social
Two cuddly 🐶
One🌛
Two fellow campaigners from North & South Devon
One newly elected Councillor
Heaps of💡ideas
If you missed our May Meet Up, join our next one:
Friday June 6th 7-9pm, venue tbc. Put it in your diary and see you there.
#Exeter #cycling #friends
Two bike riders wait on a slipway as bikes are loaded onto ferry. The river is calm and muddy.
Families wait on slipway to board ferry. The sky is blue.
The great Topsham Ferry took me part way home from physio & swimming today & my family home from haircuts & shopping.
The ferryman told me that in 2025, the Ferry carried over 8000 people & 2800 bikes across the River Exe.
Great active travel service from Exeter City Council 👌
Distant view of male Shelduck sat on top of a pylon tower
Zoomed in view of Shelduck sat on top of pylon tower
A Lapwing brooding three chicks, with their legs visible under her. The fourth chick is to the left on the edge of a shallow pool.
Lovely early morning checking out breeding birds at Exminster Marshes RSPB.
A Shelduck on a pylon- the probable nest site is below.
And a Lapwing mum with four gorgeous chicks about 4 days old.
#devonbirds
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Poor shot of 3 Wood Sandpipers and a sleeping Spoonbill
Distant, poor light & raining but 3 Wood Sandpipers around Spoonbill legs at Exminster Marshes RSPB today.
Late April, high tide & light rain combined to dump waders inc Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Turnstone, Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Greenshank, Com Sandpiper & Bar-tailed Godwits.
#devonbirds
Wood Sandpiper stood on small island at Exminster Marshes RSPB
A distant male Garganey swimming away with Curlew. Shelduck & Shoveler on water at Exminster Marshes RSPB
Two hours of pre-work dawn birding & three of the loveliest Spring migrants appeared.
-Wood Sandpiper (pic)
-Garganey (pic)
-Lesser Whitethroat (no pic)
Exminster Marshes RSPB #devonbirds
A runner in yellow shirt & purple hat, with Exminster Marshes in the background
Bar chart of records of Short-eared Owl at Exminster Marshes, with clear peak in April
It is not very often that I run to see a bird.
But I was already out running when the Short-eared Owl reappeared this evening at RSPB Exminster Marshes.
A short diversion & lovely views in the evening light.
Overwhelmingly an Apri bird here.
It would. Make sure you fill in the consultation and tell DCC. Thx if you have already. 🚲 🚶♂️ 🚲
