Judah Baker
@wildweevils.bsky.social
Devon/Somerset birder & amateur naturalist.
Bird lifelist 356 (UK 240)
Species lifelist 1,492
Insta: judah.n.baker or Wildweevils for nature
YT: JudahWildlife
Torbay Wildlife Blog: https://torquaywildlife.blogspot.com/?m=1
Bird lifelist 356 (UK 240)
Species lifelist 1,492
Insta: judah.n.baker or Wildweevils for nature
YT: JudahWildlife
Torbay Wildlife Blog: https://torquaywildlife.blogspot.com/?m=1
Trip w @kieope.bsky.social to Otter Estuary on Weds produced some nice birds - goosanders, spotshank, selffound probable curlew sand, cetti’s warblers, & 3 redwing. Stopped of at @warrenbirding.bsky.social at dusk and had the short-eared owl fly right past us!
#devonbirds #birds
#devonbirds #birds
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Trip w @kieope.bsky.social to Otter Estuary on Weds produced some nice birds - goosanders, spotshank, selffound probable curlew sand, cetti’s warblers, & 3 redwing. Stopped of at @warrenbirding.bsky.social at dusk and had the short-eared owl fly right past us!
#devonbirds #birds
#devonbirds #birds
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
Weds had osprey, 20 siskins & 250 swallows from berry head.
📷 - Kingfisher, Common Darter, Canada Goose, Meadow Pipit all by @kieope.bsky.social
#devonbirds
October 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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
Weds had osprey, 20 siskins & 250 swallows from berry head.
📷 - Kingfisher, Common Darter, Canada Goose, Meadow Pipit all by @kieope.bsky.social
#devonbirds
@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
#devonbirds
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@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
#devonbirds
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
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
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
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
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
#devonbirds #Exeter
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
#devonbirds #Exeter
Little Stint frantically feeding at Bowling Green Marsh from Sunday in the evening light #devonbirds
September 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Little Stint frantically feeding at Bowling Green Marsh from Sunday in the evening light #devonbirds
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
plus a cool leucistic oystercatcher, flyovers of 2 little egret, 5 meadow pipit, buzzard & sprawk, and hundreds of little common gobies.
#devonbirds #estuary #PWC2025
September 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
plus a cool leucistic oystercatcher, flyovers of 2 little egret, 5 meadow pipit, buzzard & sprawk, and hundreds of little common gobies.
#devonbirds #estuary #PWC2025
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
#devonbirds
September 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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
#devonbirds
Had a nice evening with good views of firecrest, if slightly dodgy pics, and found an osprey between Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton!
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Had a nice evening with good views of firecrest, if slightly dodgy pics, and found an osprey between Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton!
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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
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
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
#devonbirds
September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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
#devonbirds
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
#entomology #devonbirds
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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
#entomology #devonbirds
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
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
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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
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
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
#entomology
September 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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
#entomology
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
#devonbirds
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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
#devonbirds
Also a few lovely wall browns and speckled wood (photo by my gf)
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Also a few lovely wall browns and speckled wood (photo by my gf)
a couple hours at Berry Head earlier, 20+ porpoise, 1 bottlenose dolphin, & 3 med gull on the seawatching front, and 2+ clouded yellow, 1 painted lady, 2 wheatear, 2 chiffs, 10+ large white, & a few red admirals on the migrant side.
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
September 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
a couple hours at Berry Head earlier, 20+ porpoise, 1 bottlenose dolphin, & 3 med gull on the seawatching front, and 2+ clouded yellow, 1 painted lady, 2 wheatear, 2 chiffs, 10+ large white, & a few red admirals on the migrant side.
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
Brief and wet seawatch from breakwater beach. Not too bad for 45ish mins - highlights 35+ manxie & 9+ balearics, with a couple manxies very close in with the bad weather. Also g heron & 2 sdwich tern over the sea, 150 kitts, turnstones, little egret, hummingbird hawkmoth, & grey seal
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
September 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Brief and wet seawatch from breakwater beach. Not too bad for 45ish mins - highlights 35+ manxie & 9+ balearics, with a couple manxies very close in with the bad weather. Also g heron & 2 sdwich tern over the sea, 150 kitts, turnstones, little egret, hummingbird hawkmoth, & grey seal
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
Also what i assume is Chorisops tibialis
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Also what i assume is Chorisops tibialis
Short and unrewarding seawatch from @warrenbirding.bsky.social with only birds of some interest r pipit & med gull.
Tidepooling was productive w shore, edible, hairy porcelain, & dead spider crab, + a ragworm, 2 dwarf brittle star, large rockling sp & the rest of the usuals.
#devonbirds #rockpools
Tidepooling was productive w shore, edible, hairy porcelain, & dead spider crab, + a ragworm, 2 dwarf brittle star, large rockling sp & the rest of the usuals.
#devonbirds #rockpools
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Short and unrewarding seawatch from @warrenbirding.bsky.social with only birds of some interest r pipit & med gull.
Tidepooling was productive w shore, edible, hairy porcelain, & dead spider crab, + a ragworm, 2 dwarf brittle star, large rockling sp & the rest of the usuals.
#devonbirds #rockpools
Tidepooling was productive w shore, edible, hairy porcelain, & dead spider crab, + a ragworm, 2 dwarf brittle star, large rockling sp & the rest of the usuals.
#devonbirds #rockpools
A short vid of the wheatear from wall‘s hill a week ago, absolutely lovely birds, love the tail flick!
#devonbirds #PWC2025
#devonbirds #PWC2025
September 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A short vid of the wheatear from wall‘s hill a week ago, absolutely lovely birds, love the tail flick!
#devonbirds #PWC2025
#devonbirds #PWC2025
Wall’s Hill vismig -
Overhead migrants - 1 ringed plover, 1 pied wag, 1 mipit, 1 linnet, 29 swallow & 2 house martin.
Grounded migrants - 40+ phylloscs (mostly chiffs), & 2 blackcap.
Also firecrest and 2 site ticks with tawny owl & collared dove
#devonbirds #PWC2025
Overhead migrants - 1 ringed plover, 1 pied wag, 1 mipit, 1 linnet, 29 swallow & 2 house martin.
Grounded migrants - 40+ phylloscs (mostly chiffs), & 2 blackcap.
Also firecrest and 2 site ticks with tawny owl & collared dove
#devonbirds #PWC2025
September 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Wall’s Hill vismig -
Overhead migrants - 1 ringed plover, 1 pied wag, 1 mipit, 1 linnet, 29 swallow & 2 house martin.
Grounded migrants - 40+ phylloscs (mostly chiffs), & 2 blackcap.
Also firecrest and 2 site ticks with tawny owl & collared dove
#devonbirds #PWC2025
Overhead migrants - 1 ringed plover, 1 pied wag, 1 mipit, 1 linnet, 29 swallow & 2 house martin.
Grounded migrants - 40+ phylloscs (mostly chiffs), & 2 blackcap.
Also firecrest and 2 site ticks with tawny owl & collared dove
#devonbirds #PWC2025
unless it was this sleeping bird in the middle (think it had the little freckles of a 5cy bird) or one of the other two sleeping defo did have it. think these are all herring, but the 5cy does appear to have a slighty long looking head. Probably herring tho
September 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
unless it was this sleeping bird in the middle (think it had the little freckles of a 5cy bird) or one of the other two sleeping defo did have it. think these are all herring, but the 5cy does appear to have a slighty long looking head. Probably herring tho
Terrible quality vid of the Sabine’s Gull, my UK lifer #240, and a much wanted bird! Now just to get good views of an adult aha
#devonbirds
#devonbirds
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Terrible quality vid of the Sabine’s Gull, my UK lifer #240, and a much wanted bird! Now just to get good views of an adult aha
#devonbirds
#devonbirds