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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 16h

Team Saga score again... 👍💪

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 1d

An Arctic Skua west was the best of this morning's birds....

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 2d

Whooper Swans 🙄

Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 2d

Cropped and cleaned up pic of this morning's Whooper's Swans as they headed west past West Bex just after 8.00am. The birds are currently at Colyford, Devon.

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Six probable Whooper Swans just flown west past West Bex...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 7d

Might be of interest... European Storm Petrel carcass at West Bex this morning... very desiccated, so probably from last winter.

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 8d

Earlish Red-throated Diver off West Bexington this morning...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 10d

Indeed....

Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 10d

A peach of 1w Casp at West Bex this morning along with Ring Ouzel, Spot Fly, 7 Wheatears and an exceptional flock of 120 Cormorants flying west at dawn... easily the highest single count we've witnessed here.. 99 in the picture

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 21d

Sorry, I'm afraid not, the bird top left is a Reed Bunting two of the other three are Yellowhammers, the third very small image is probably too. Females Cirls are pretty tricky so don't be discouraged... Cirl Bunting pic attached. The rump colours is diagnostic, it would be rufus on a Yellowhammer.

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 23d

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Sep 7

Some of the 81 Balearics Shearwaters that went east past West Bex this morning...I think I picked up the tail-end of the movement with unidentified birds distantly ahead of them...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Sep 1

Rubbish snatched shot but a Grey Phalarope has just flown east past West Bex...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Sep 1

What a great looking bird..

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks... Gav may have better...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 31

Juv Sabine's Cogden found b.y @notquitescilly.bsky.social it flew east at around 9.00am...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Caspian Gull was around West Bex again this morning.... shame about the oil....

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 24

Buff-tip according to Obsidentify...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 24

...yes German.

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 24

Not looked up the scheme yet but I know what you mean...

Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 24

Juv Caspian Gull at West Bex this morning... @joestockwell.bsky.social is checking the ring number to see if it's the bird seen at the Swannery yesterday, but it's slightly oiled so I imagine so. Redstart and Bearded Tit the best of the common migrants...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 22

This confiding Dutch ringed Med Gull is back for its third year on the same patch of beach at Cogden this morning... a steady trickle of common migrants through the last few weeks, but nothing to get the pulse racing...yet.

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just our fifth sighting of the autumn but very few gulls here to sort through to be fair..

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here you go, West Bex yesterday...

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · Aug 21

That's a decent pic Martyn 👌