August 2, 2004

SUNDAY 1st AUGUST . 2004

BOWLING GREEN MARSH , TOPSHAM , DEVON .

Up early for a look at the Marsh , not to many birds around but counts of 20+ WHIMBREL & CURLEW , 55 GREENSHANK , 6 DUNLIN , COMMON SNIPE & LITTLE GREBE was ok .
1 COMMON SANDPIPER & 2 GREEN SANDPIPER also showed well .
There was also 25 LITTLE EGRET sat in one tree on the edge of the marsh , the photo shows some of them .
My how these birds have built up in numbers since i twitched my first on the Teign Estuary back in 87 .

Posted by Stonegrouse04 at August 2, 2004 5:07 PM