Monday 29th October was another beautiful autumnal day and after considering taking a trip to Stithians Reservoir in Cornwall to look for a Temmincks stint I decided to keep it local and caught the bus out to Wembury instead.
It was a chilly start but soon warmed up with clear skies, sunshine and a lack of any wind and again there were a few butterflies on the wing - single clouded yellow and small copper along with red admirals and small whites.
Small White
Red Admiral
Along the beach on the high tide were a little egret, oystercatchers and mallards but the highlights were 3 dunlin and a lone turnstone and a very flighty water pipit feeding on the seaweed mass near the sewage pipe. The water pipit was quite pale looking in the strong sunlight but it was very skittish and mobile and unusually was quite often chased off by nearby rock pipits, a surprise as they are usually the dominant pipit on my previous observations of them at Wembury.
Water Pipit
Water Pipit
Other birds seen were 2 flyover ravens, a patrolling female kestrel, 2 soaring buzzards, a chiffchaff feeding in the hedge at The Point with a second bird heard calling in gardens from the road down to the beach, stonechats, a pair of cirl buntings in the sewage farm hedge with the male singing briefly and a female pheasant which survived last weeks shooting party.
Pheasant
A very pleasant walk as always , not too busy with people for a change and some nice sightings.
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