Trip reports

Field Trip - Aylesbere Common and Budleigh Salterton

Sedge warbler perched on phragmites

Saturday, 18 April 2009

Location 1 :- Aylesbere Common - RSPB Reserve
Location 2 :- Budleigh Salterton - Local Nature Reserve
Attendance Total :- 28 People
Weather :- Sunny but Cool and Breezy
Bird Sightings Total :- 45
Star bird of the day :- Whimbrel
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Cormorant
Wood Pigeon
Reed Warbler
Little Egret
Collared Dove
Dartford Warbler
Grey Heron
Green Woodpecker
Chiffchaff
Mute Swan
Sand Martin
Willow Warbler
Shelduck
Swallow
Great Tit
Wigeon
Meadow Pipit
Jay
Mallard
Pied Wagtail
Magpie
Sparrowhawk
Wren
Jackdaw
Common Buzzard
Dunnock
Rook
Common Kestrel
Robin
Carrion Crow
Pheasant
Stonechat
House Sparrow
Moorhen
Blackbird
Chaffinch
Whimbrel
Song Thrush
Greenfinch
Herring Gull
Cetti's Warbler
Goldfinch
Great Black-backed Gull
Sedge Warbler
Linnet
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Total Bird Sightings 2008/2009 Season so far :- 107
Notes
Many thanks to the assistant warden Charles Reed for showing us around the reserve
on our first full daytime visit. The reserve is much bigger than we all thought.
We were also lucky enough to see Common Lizards and Slow Worms.