A young Avocet feeding on Black Hole Marsh, #Seaton #Devon
One of the three that are thought to be the first born in Devon and approximately eight weeks old.

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https://youtu.be/SkJ7rnnGrpo

I squeezed in a little #birding this morning with a visit to Black Hole Marsh ( #Seaton , #Devon ). A Little Stint had turned up there on its way south. This diminutive wader was a delight to watch through the 'scope as it scurried about feeding. The young Avocet were still about (remember - the first to be born in Devon?) as well as Greenshank, Redshank and Common Sandpiper. All in all a nice trip.

#Stint #birdsofmastodon #birds
📷 Little Stint (with Black-headed Gull (3rd) and Dunlin (4th))

@tero

Maybe, but I see some issues: you'd end up with some hashtags that were ambiguous in whether they were location-based or not (the village of #Seaton is next to the village of #Beer for example, I kid you not...)

And you'd also have the issue of differing scales - do I subscribe to #SeafieldRoad, or #Seaton, or #Dorset? The dream goal for me is a system where I could paint onto a map the area within which I'd like to subscribe (with ability to control the brush size!)

For example, I'm visiting #Seaton for the next couple of days and wanted to ask locals what kind of #apple trees are planted around the "Sea Front Gardens" Green https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178239906 #iNaturalist

#Devon #Dorset

I visited Black Hole Marsh, #Seaton early this morning to check out the first breeding #Devon #Avocet. It was peaceful and quiet and the Avocet were all present and correct - two adult, three young. Lovely to see this elegant wader. And they also lived up to their feisty reputation as parents - seeing off any birds that came too close

#nature #wildlife #BirdsofMastodon #Birds #Birding #RecurvirostraAvosetta #BlackHoleMarsh

Video here:

https://youtu.be/-vG-ckzRkgU

Bit of a misty early morning walk along #seaton beach. Pretty mild which is welcome.

A video of the Black-winged Stilt from earlier today.

#Devon #Seaton #BlackHoleMarsh #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #wetlands #BlackWingedStilt #Stilt #elegance

https://youtu.be/VziwYl3kEIY

A lucky day out & about. I stopped on a woodland track & a Firecrest went around & around me. A rarer but less elusive bird returned (Isabelline Wheatear) not far from where I'd gone so I nipped along to see it. And then, a Scaup, a pair of Goldeneye and a Sandwich Tern were all reported on the River Exe virtually on my way home. All of this lovliness in the #Devon sunshine.

#UKBirding #Birding #Birds #SeatonTramway #Tram #EastDevonCommons #EastDevon #Seaton #Firecrest #IsabellineWheatear

My take on #Seaton beach