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Judah Baker

@wildweevils.bsky.social

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Devon/Somerset birder & amateur naturalist. Bird lifelist 356 (UK 240) Species lifelist 1,459 Insta: judah.n.baker or Wildweevils for nature YT: JudahWildlife Torbay Wildlife Blog: https://torquaywildlife.blogspot.com/?m=1

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 1d

Vismig 7-9 this morning from babbacombe produced 22 siskins, 13 redpolls, 2 sprawks, 7 swallows & 5 mipits all S.

Weds had osprey, 20 siskins & 250 swallows from berry head.

📷 - Kingfisher, Common Darter, Canada Goose, Meadow Pipit all by @kieope.bsky.social
#devonbirds

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 7d

@kieope.bsky.social and I visited dawlish warren and BGM today, we got our main target of curlew sand, plus a few other decent birds and total sp count 65 for the day. - 2 swallow & 10 mipit vismig, + 8 avocet, 2 whimbrel, 20 barwit, 6 greenshank, 3 ruff, 30+ pintail, 40 brent & 3 s tern
#devonbirds

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 7d

Tempting to go for it as a patch tick. Have tmr free for birding, trying to decide what to do, risk trying to find a casp/curlew sand at otter eatuary, risk BGM for curlew sand, or the something else. Unfortunately bad conditions for seawatching :/

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 9d

Not seen many birds since October started, just a few chiffs, fire and goldcrests, grey wags & siskins.
Found a couple of cool bugs tho

Pictured - Red Cabbage Bug, Wrinkled Snail, Door-snail, & my first White-striped Centipede

#devonbirds #entomology #bugs #wildlife #devon

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 10d

It is a BHG but it’s weird how small it looks infront of the med!

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 11d

Lovely photo! That’s actually a razorbill tho :)

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 13d

Trip to Topsham and BGM with @kieope.bsky.social this afternoon, not many waders or other birds of interest about - 3 ruff (year ✅), 1 avocet, 6 barwit, 1 greenshank, 1+ knot, 2 snipe, 10 pintail, 3 mipit, cettis, male marsh harrier, & yellowhammer heard.

#devonbirds #Exeter

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 15d

Vismig from babbacombe downs this morning 8-9:30 as i slept thru the alarms. Main highlight was a good passage of siskins, vismig totals included:

1 g heron, 2 swallow, 2 grey wag, 6 mipit, 25 linnet, & 138 siskins! All south.
Also 10+ lingering chiffs probably migrants & 4 firecrests
#devonbirds

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 17d

Little Stint frantically feeding at Bowling Green Marsh from Sunday in the evening light #devonbirds

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 17d

Not much at low tide on the teign estuary this afternoon, with gulls on the salty being 100+ herring, c5 GBBG, & 1 LBBG (📷)
plus a cool leucistic oystercatcher, flyovers of 2 little egret, 5 meadow pipit, buzzard & sprawk, and hundreds of little common gobies.
#devonbirds #estuary #PWC2025

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 17d

Visit to DW yday looking out to the bight didn’t produce much with 8 s martins, 2 brent, 150 curlew, 300+ oyc, + a few rshank, dunlin, & ring plovers. However further into the warren we had more luck - spot fly at the main pond, grey wag in DDW, and m eider & 40+ c scoter off the seawall
#devonbirds

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 18d

Had a nice evening with good views of firecrest, if slightly dodgy pics, and found an osprey between Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton!
#devonbirds

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 19d

#PWC2025

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 19d

Garden vismig from babbacombe 800-930 AM, pretty late morning for anything crazy.

Overhead passage - 25+ mipits, 1 siskin, 4 goldfinch, 6 cormorant, 4 grey wag, 180+ swallow, & 280+ house martin.

Grounded migrants - 3 chiffs, + resident birds but nuthatch & firecrest heard were cool!
#devonbirds

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 20d

Went exmouth, budleigh, and then BGM at dusk yday - Highlights uk lifer #240 bairds sand, 2 little stint, 5 glossy ibis, 7+ knot, green sand, wheatear, 2 firecrest, kingfishers, 3+ barwits, & 8+ greenshank. Plus rusty-dot pearl, forest bug, and finally lifered brickwork woodlouse!
#devonbirds

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 20d

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 22d

Devil’s Coach Horse and Silver Y plus lots of other moths on the wing at Greenland Lake @warrenbirding.bsky.social whilst I and @kieope.bsky.social were failing to find the reported rosefinch
#entomology #devonbirds

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 23d

Bird pics by my gf

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 23d

BerryHead yday 1130-1530, quite calm conditions with mixed but mostly good visibility, so limited passage.

4 probable great shear, 42 balearic, 1 manxie, 3 arctic skua, 1 ad little gull, 4 c scoter, 4 sdwch tern, & 1k+ kitts. Mostly all heading south, + bluefin tuna, c dolphins & g seal
#devonbirds

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 23d

yday whilst seawatching at berry head was swarmed by mating ants, some of which were apparently Solenopsis fugax, which is quite scarce with only a handful of known sites in southern England. Can’t see any records at Berry Head so was wondering if anyone knew anything abt it. 📷 weevil
#entomology

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 25d

@clennonvalley.bsky.social does tmr look okay for seawatching from berry head? Probably gonna go for maybe late morning thru into the afternoon

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 27d

Osprey over Countess Weir roundabout at 12:30 today from the bus! Thought it was a gull until I got bins on it.
#devonbirds

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 28d

Yeah, the quarry doesn’t shield you as much from south easterlies as much as south westerlies, so we waited the worst out in the hide and the late afternoon in the quarry was a bit wet but not too bad

Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 28d

Berry Head 12:30-17:00, first 3h unwisely spent in hide with 0 sightings other than a bloxworth snout (📷), then 90 mins at the quarry where @clennonvalley.bsky.social found me a bonxie (year ✅), plus 25+ balearics, 15+ manxie, 1 c tern, 1 guille, 70 kitt, 6 fulmar, & cmn dolphins
#devonbirds

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Judah Baker @wildweevils.bsky.social · 28d

What time? Me and my gf came down into the quarry about 3:30, we had 40ish shears and a bonxie