A cold and frosty morning's bird watch on the Warren brrrrr!!!

I was up bright and early on this cold and very frosty morning, for a good morning's bird watch at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve. 

Dawlish Warren covered in Hoar Frost

It was nice to finally see the flood defence completed around the Visitor Centre, it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would to be honest....it take some getting use to on the eye!

New wooden wall - flood defence around the VC at Dawlish Warren

Flood Defence

The highlight of the morning, was seeing the BullFinches in the trees near the VC on arriving on the site. This was another 'big tick' for my list. 

I headed down to the bird hide for high-tide, which was quite high today (4.2m). 

Here is a list of the birds seen today:

Bullfinch

Greenfinch

Goldfinch

Song Thrush

Wren

Robin

Great Tits

Blue Tits

Dunnock

Blackbird

Great Crested Grebe

Cormorants

Wigeon

Shellducks

Dunlin

Grey Plovers

Knot

Knot - by Dean Hall

Brent Geese

Ring Plovers

Curlews

Bar-Tailed Godwits

Turnstone

Oystercatchers

Redshank

Little Egrets

Stonechat

Slav Grebe

Seen on the main pond near VC...

Gadwall

Little Grebe

Mute Swan

Moorhen

Moorhen and Gadwall on the main pond - by Dean Hall