Paul's Birding Diary

Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th October 2014 Beer - with Beer Brook running alongside Fore Street towards the beac h No, the village in Devon, not the beverage. It now seems, after days of rain and wind, or fog, that in my few days in SE Devon recently with Linda, we really had the last gasp of summer. A few photos here of this lovely corner of England (going a bit misty-eyed there, sorry about that). Aboard a tram on Seaton Tramway, with the Axe Estuary on one side and Seaton Marshes on the other A juvenile Black-tailed Godwit snapped from the moving tram Coastal scenery between Beer and Branscombe Always nice when you look for something and find it, this Clouded Yellow was at Branscombe Mouth beach This Red Admiral was also on the beach at Branscombe, dodging the surf at times Picturesque cows at Branscombe village

Sunday 5th October 2014 Some photos here of the juvenile Pink-footed Goose at WWT Slimbridge allowing close study as it fed/swam/wandered around the Big Pen.        

Wednesday 1st October 2014 Linda alerted me to a "strange grasshoppery thing" in the kitchen last night - it was this Speckled Bush-cricket . It's missing a hind leg, but still an impressive insect.