Sightings Diary
August 2011
Common Lizard
Topsham RSPB Bowling Green Hide
31.08.11 - 17 degrees, dry, light wind, 2 hours either side of high tide
Magpie, Robin, Wren, Dunnock, Chiffchaff, Goldfinch, Mallard, Shoveler, Teal, Mute swan, Black-tailed godwits, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Little Grebe, Coot, Morehen, Black-headed Gull, Avocet (4), Yellow Wagtail, Dunlin, Purple Sandpiper, Little Stint, Heron, Swallows, Pied Wagtail, Canada Geese, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Bearded Tit, Little Egrets, Crows, Shelduck, Sedge warbler
Avocet
Black-tailed Godwit
Week at - East Prawle, Avon Estuary, Dittisham, Soar, Slapton Sands - South Devon
23.08.11 to 30.08.11 - 15 to 22 degrees, sunny, rainy, windy, 9am to 4pm daily
East Prawle
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Toadflax, Rose bay willow herb, Flea bane, Evening Primrose, Hog weed, Bramble blossom, Hedge Woundwort, Herb Robert, Smooth Sow Thistle, Nipplewort, Bedstraw, Field Bindweed, Meadow Vetchling, Common Vetch ,Tufted Vetch, Honeysuckle, Cat- ear, White Clover, Yarrow, Red Campion, Tansy, Dandelions, Germander Speedwell, Prickly Sow-thistle, Lesser Trefoil, Hop Trefoil, Wild Poppy, Greater Willowherb, Creeping Thistle, Ragwort, Hemp- agrimony, Silverweed, Wild Carrot, Sea Carrot, Musk Thistle, Sheeps-bit, Autumn Squill, Scarlet Pimpernel, Bitter sweet, Centaury, Sloes, Bell Heather, Mugwort, Oxeye daisies, Thrift, Chamomile, Spear Thistle, Red Clover, Sea Campion, Kidney Vetch, Gorse Bloom, Water Mint, Saw-wort, Stonecrop, Greater Knapweed, Dodder (not in flower), Carline Thistle, Fat-hen, Sun Spurge, Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea, Large Bindweed, Burdock, Red Campion, Pineapple Mayweed, Groundsel, Foxglove, Ripening Hawthorn Berries, Valerian, Common Mallow, Daisies, Great Mullein, Spear Orache, Travellers Joy, Fumitory, Cinquefoil, Bloody Cranes bill, Common Calamint, Agrimony, Betony, Small Sheepsbit, Ling Heather, Wild Thyme, Mouse Ear, Slender Thistle, Devils-bit Scabious, Marjoram, Wild Basil, Restharrow, Pink Purslane, Hares-foot clover, Selfheal, White Campion, Wood Sage, Black Medic, Common Bistort, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Black Nightshade
Birds - Goldfinches, Robins, Dunnocks, Swallows, House Martins, Yellowhammers, Stonechats, Magpies, Jackdaws, Rooks, Crows, Pigeons, Kestrels, Herring Gulls, Oystercatcher, Spotted Flycatchers, Blue Tits, Linnets, Sparrowhawk, Buzzards, Wheatears, Cormorants, Rock Pipits, Wren, House Sparrows, Chaffinches, Whitethroats, Greater Black-backed Gulls, Green Woodpecker, Ravens, Peregrine Falcons, Great Tits, Blackbirds, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, Wood Warbler, Gannets, Collard Dove, Starlings, Cirl Buntings
Male Cirl Bunting
Butterflies - Speckled Wood, Large Whites, Small Coppers, Six Spotted Burnet, Small Tortoise Shells, Common Blues, Meadow Browns, Red Admirals, Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary, Gatekeepers, Wall Browns, Painted Lady, Small Whites, Holly Blue, Comma, Clouded Yellow
Clouded Yellow
Holly Blue
Dragonflies and Damselflies - Common Darters, Common Hawker, Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Female Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Other - Common Lizards, Basking Slowworm, Feral Goats, Field (edible) Mushrooms, Horse Mushrooms
Avon Estuary
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Enchanters Nightshade, Redshank, Field Pansy, White Dead-nettle, Yellow Archangel, Woodavens, Sea Holly, Sea Spurge, Lesser Centaury, Sea Aster, Teasil, Red Dead-nettle, St John's-wort, Yellow Horned Poppy, Meadowsweet, Field Madder, Corn Marigold, Doves-foot Cranesbill, Buckwheat
Birds - Common Sandpipers, Little Egrets, Mallard, Black-headed Gulls, Mute Swans, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Herons, Cirl Buntings, Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws, Greenfinches, Magpies, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Dunlin, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, Long-tailed Tits, Song Thrush
Butterflies and Moths - Brimstone Moth
Other - Stoat
Dittisham
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Green Alkanet, Broadleaved Willowherb, Common Figwort, Vipers Bugloss, Chicory, Hogweed, Wild Fennel, Goldenrod
Soar
Wildflowers (Flowering) - Cyclamen, Wood-rush, Dog Violet!
Birds - Sparrowhawk - Mother with kill and begging male offspring
Other - Parasol Mushrooms
Slapton Ley
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Gipsywort, Marsh Woundwort, Skullcap, Restharrow, Meadow Cranes-bill
Birds - Canada Geese, Coots, Mallard, Cettis Warbler, Pochard, Willow Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Great Crested Grebes (Many)
Butterflies - Clouded Yellow
Dragonflies and Damselflies - Emperor Dragonfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly
Other - Common Lizards (many)
Common Lizard
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31.08.11 - 17 degrees, dry, light wind, 2 hours either side of high tide
Magpie, Robin, Wren, Dunnock, Chiffchaff, Goldfinch, Mallard, Shoveler, Teal, Mute swan, Black-tailed godwits, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Little Grebe, Coot, Morehen, Black-headed Gull, Avocet (4), Yellow Wagtail, Dunlin, Purple Sandpiper, Little Stint, Heron, Swallows, Pied Wagtail, Canada Geese, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Bearded Tit, Little Egrets, Crows, Shelduck, Sedge warbler
Avocet
Black-tailed Godwit
Week at - East Prawle, Avon Estuary, Dittisham, Soar, Slapton Sands - South Devon
23.08.11 to 30.08.11 - 15 to 22 degrees, sunny, rainy, windy, 9am to 4pm daily
East Prawle
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Toadflax, Rose bay willow herb, Flea bane, Evening Primrose, Hog weed, Bramble blossom, Hedge Woundwort, Herb Robert, Smooth Sow Thistle, Nipplewort, Bedstraw, Field Bindweed, Meadow Vetchling, Common Vetch ,Tufted Vetch, Honeysuckle, Cat- ear, White Clover, Yarrow, Red Campion, Tansy, Dandelions, Germander Speedwell, Prickly Sow-thistle, Lesser Trefoil, Hop Trefoil, Wild Poppy, Greater Willowherb, Creeping Thistle, Ragwort, Hemp- agrimony, Silverweed, Wild Carrot, Sea Carrot, Musk Thistle, Sheeps-bit, Autumn Squill, Scarlet Pimpernel, Bitter sweet, Centaury, Sloes, Bell Heather, Mugwort, Oxeye daisies, Thrift, Chamomile, Spear Thistle, Red Clover, Sea Campion, Kidney Vetch, Gorse Bloom, Water Mint, Saw-wort, Stonecrop, Greater Knapweed, Dodder (not in flower), Carline Thistle, Fat-hen, Sun Spurge, Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea, Large Bindweed, Burdock, Red Campion, Pineapple Mayweed, Groundsel, Foxglove, Ripening Hawthorn Berries, Valerian, Common Mallow, Daisies, Great Mullein, Spear Orache, Travellers Joy, Fumitory, Cinquefoil, Bloody Cranes bill, Common Calamint, Agrimony, Betony, Small Sheepsbit, Ling Heather, Wild Thyme, Mouse Ear, Slender Thistle, Devils-bit Scabious, Marjoram, Wild Basil, Restharrow, Pink Purslane, Hares-foot clover, Selfheal, White Campion, Wood Sage, Black Medic, Common Bistort, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Black Nightshade
Birds - Goldfinches, Robins, Dunnocks, Swallows, House Martins, Yellowhammers, Stonechats, Magpies, Jackdaws, Rooks, Crows, Pigeons, Kestrels, Herring Gulls, Oystercatcher, Spotted Flycatchers, Blue Tits, Linnets, Sparrowhawk, Buzzards, Wheatears, Cormorants, Rock Pipits, Wren, House Sparrows, Chaffinches, Whitethroats, Greater Black-backed Gulls, Green Woodpecker, Ravens, Peregrine Falcons, Great Tits, Blackbirds, Chiffchaffs, Blackcaps, Wood Warbler, Gannets, Collard Dove, Starlings, Cirl Buntings
Male Cirl Bunting
Butterflies - Speckled Wood, Large Whites, Small Coppers, Six Spotted Burnet, Small Tortoise Shells, Common Blues, Meadow Browns, Red Admirals, Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary, Gatekeepers, Wall Browns, Painted Lady, Small Whites, Holly Blue, Comma, Clouded Yellow
Clouded Yellow
Holly Blue
Dragonflies and Damselflies - Common Darters, Common Hawker, Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Female Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Other - Common Lizards, Basking Slowworm, Feral Goats, Field (edible) Mushrooms, Horse Mushrooms
Avon Estuary
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Enchanters Nightshade, Redshank, Field Pansy, White Dead-nettle, Yellow Archangel, Woodavens, Sea Holly, Sea Spurge, Lesser Centaury, Sea Aster, Teasil, Red Dead-nettle, St John's-wort, Yellow Horned Poppy, Meadowsweet, Field Madder, Corn Marigold, Doves-foot Cranesbill, Buckwheat
Birds - Common Sandpipers, Little Egrets, Mallard, Black-headed Gulls, Mute Swans, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Herons, Cirl Buntings, Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws, Greenfinches, Magpies, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Dunlin, Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Sparrowhawk, Kingfisher, Long-tailed Tits, Song Thrush
Butterflies and Moths - Brimstone Moth
Other - Stoat
Dittisham
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Green Alkanet, Broadleaved Willowherb, Common Figwort, Vipers Bugloss, Chicory, Hogweed, Wild Fennel, Goldenrod
Soar
Wildflowers (Flowering) - Cyclamen, Wood-rush, Dog Violet!
Birds - Sparrowhawk - Mother with kill and begging male offspring
Other - Parasol Mushrooms
Slapton Ley
Wild Flowers (Flowering) - Gipsywort, Marsh Woundwort, Skullcap, Restharrow, Meadow Cranes-bill
Birds - Canada Geese, Coots, Mallard, Cettis Warbler, Pochard, Willow Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Great Crested Grebes (Many)
Butterflies - Clouded Yellow
Dragonflies and Damselflies - Emperor Dragonfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly
Other - Common Lizards (many)
Common Lizard
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