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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 1d

5 Ring Ouzels eventually found on Dartmoor this morning plus c12 Fieldfare, 4 Mistle Thrush, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird and 2 Reed Buntings

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 8d

What a week Leon - top stuff 👍

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 10d

Top effort 👍

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 40th anniversary to “Cuckoo day” on St Mary’s - 12/10/85- one of the most famous days in birding history - pics YBC- D Cotteridge and BBC - P Wheeler (plus Parula, Yellow-Rumped W, RB Grosbeak etc etc)

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 13d

The Spotted Sand still at St Warna’s Cove , St Agnes this afternoon and showing well

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 13d

The Buff Bellied Pipit showing very well on St Agnes this afternoon at the end of Barnaby Lane

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 14d

The Hoopoe on Periglis Beach St Agnes showing well this afternoon

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 14d

The Mourning Dove still on St Agnes this afternoon on continual view and showing well

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 19d

Firecrest in the garden late afternoon - Torquay- phone pics only

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 21d

Spoonbill still 315pm on the River Teign from Passage House Inn car park and showing well

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 27d

Pec Sand at Bowling Green Marsh from Hide mid afternoon and showing well on edge of main lake- found early afternoon by @backwardbirder.bsky.social

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · 28d

A non birding holiday in Ibiza for the last week but still saw 4 Balearic Warblers,2 Med flys,Z Cisticola, BRThrush, c300Flamingo,2 Hoopoe,Stone Curlew, c25Audoiuns Gulls(4 sites),Eleonoras Falcon,Turtle Dove,Many Sards, c100 BN Grebes,Nightingale heard, 3YellowW-huge thanks to @sferguk.bsky.social

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 17

Berry Head 720am-930am- very quiet with hardly any seabirds moving - 5 Balearic Shears, 1 Manx, 2 Sandwich Terns, c400 Kittiwakes plus 2 Atlantic BF Tuna- also Grey Wagtail and Common Sand

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 16

Always a pleasure to help you out - proper quick twitching by you as well 👍

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 11

An afternoon dog walk found me at Countess Weir and the ridiculously confiding 4 Glossy Ibis still c5pm on the flooded pools right next to the footpath - c100-200 yards north of the car park/bridge

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 8

So exciting 👍

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dawlish Warren this morning - c150 Common Terns, c100 Sandwich Terns, 6 Knot, 10 Bar Tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, c70 Dunlin, 14 Wigeon, 2 Med Gulls, Peregrine over the bight, 31 Mute Swans and 2 Wheatears

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 4

What an evening 👍

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Impressive stat- love it 😊

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Sep 2

The juv Rose Coloured Starling still Wembury Mewstone Avenue/Brownhill Lane 815-830am with Starling Flock and showing well in dead tree- this is the 22nd Rose Coloured Starling I’ve seen in Devon and interestingly exactly half have been juvs and half summer birds

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Aug 31

Cheers - I always try and add a bit of interest to posts

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Grey Phalarope still 315pm at least at the back of the pool at South Huish Marsh going backwards and forwards in front of the far reeds- The first Grey Phal I have ever seen in August in Devon ! And the third one I have seen at South Huish in recent years

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Aug 30

Worth it then after all your effort to get there today !!

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Aug 30

Berry Head-1250pm-4pm-an exciting afternoon with 11 Great Shears(day total 13) and 2 Corys Shears (day total 3)- most relatively close in - also c6Balearic Shears, 2 Arctic Skua, Common Tern, 2 Sandwich Terns with @clennonvalley.bsky.social @exmoorbirder.bsky.social @jacob-wood.bsky.social

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Mark Bailey @markrabailey.bsky.social · Aug 29

And a great picture of LH 😂😂

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