Lyme Regis Birding - or an even quieter Backwater (1 Viewer)

[Roger Boswell]

Freezing cold today - even without any wind.

11 Oystercatchers on the ledges.
Pied and Grey Wagtail at the Lim mouth; no sighting of the Black Redstart this morning.

Just 4 Purple Sandpipers feeding on the rocks directly below the Cobb outer wall - quite difficult to spot.

1 Dipper flying behind the Town Mill, 2 more together 50m down from Horn Bridge.

 

[Roger Boswell]

Beautiful sunny day, but birds late up!

Just a couple of Rock Pipits enjoying the sun on the walls near the museum.

4 Purple Sandpipers in the holes in the wall behind the aquarium.

Returned to Church Cliffs where I located the Black Redstart and managed to get a distant image of it.

Up the Lim and a brilliant blue flash of a Kingfisher. It must have been fishing from the ornate window box of a house at the bottom of Combe St. - unfortunately it saw me first.

Almost as colourful a brilliant Grey Wagtail.

2 Dippers flying up and down the section between Horn Bridge and Higher Mill Flats.

 

[stevo]

Freezing cold today - even without any wind.

11 Oystercatchers on the ledges.
Pied and Grey Wagtail at the Lim mouth; no sighting of the Black Redstart this morning.

Just 4 Purple Sandpipers feeding on the rocks directly below the Cobb outer wall - quite difficult to spot.

1 Dipper flying behind the Town Mill, 2 more together 50m down from Horn Bridge.

Many thanks Roger to you & your wife I saw 2 Dipper yesterday & had a further report of another pair resident around the Talbot inn area at uplyme.

Steve.B B B

 

[Roger Boswell]

Many thanks Roger to you & your wife I saw 2 Dipper yesterday & had a further report of another pair resident around the Talbot inn area at uplyme.

It is nice to know that the Dipper did not let me down!

Today the Black Redstart was again flitting between the rocks and roof of the Marine Theatre.

It was a very high tide this morning and there were 15 Purple Sandpipers resting in the holes in the wall behind the Aquarium.

The two Dippers were sitting on stones beside Lymbrook Cottages - unfortunately too far apart to get both in the same image - and too dark as well!

 

[Roger Boswell]

Dull and damp but not as wet as expected.

Two pairs of Dippers on the Lim - one building behind the houses beyond the end of the ford and another near Horn Bridge.

Grey Wagtails and a Wren also seen on the Lim.

5 Purple Sandpipers on the rock armour beyond the Cobb with Pied Wagtails and Rock Pipits in the Cobb area. 2 pairs of GBB gulls in the harbour

 

[Roger Boswell]

Miserable wet morning.

21 Oystercatchers on the North Wall

15 Purple Sandpipers holed up in the wall below the aquarium - high tide and rough!

 

[bren-escape]

Many thanks to Roger, today we got to see a dipper, really good view of kingfisher, grey wagtail and purple sandpiper and had a cream tea after!

 

[bren-escape]

Pics of Dipper and KingfisherB

 

[Roger Boswell]

Pics of Dipper and KingfisherB

What super images. I think this is the first picture of a Kingfisher on the Lim - even Richard Austin hasn't managed to get one yet.

 

[bren-escape]

We saw the kingfisher a few times. When we were stood by Higher Mill Flats he flew down stream. When we walked back down stream he was sat in a bush just above the weir where you cross a road. He then flew down stream, but then returned and landed on a branch just above bush opposite some railings where I quickly took the pic.

 

[Roger Boswell]

Another freezing cold day - especially in the NE wind on the Cobb.

Just a single Dipper on the Lim (near Higher Mill Flats) and a Grey Wagtail near the Town Mill.

A single Oystercatcher and 3 Curlews on the ledges.

Pied Wagtails and Rock Pipits braving the winds around the Cobb - but not a Purple Sandpiper to be seen.

Several Wrens in the trees along the Lim, and in Slopes Farm (Woodland Trust).

 

[Roger Boswell]

Not such a cold wind today, but birds still lacking.

1 Curlew on the ledges and the usual Rock Pipits and Pied Wagtails along Marine Parade to the Cobb. Still no Purple Sandpipers to be seen.

Wren, Treecreeper and 2 Dippers in the Horn Bridge area.

 

[Roger Boswell]

Few birds but many people in Lyme today!

Single Curlew and Oystercatcher on the ledges.
Many Pied Wagtails along Marine Parade and a few Rock Pipits.
2 Purple Sandpipers just visible on the far end of the Cobb rock armour.

Grey Wagtail on the Lim upstream of the Town Mill.

Two Dippers just below Horn Bridge - still not near enough to get both in the same frame.

 

[Roger Boswell]

Dipper on the Lim - in the section between Mill Green and Jericho.

3 Purple Sandpipers on the rock armour at the end of the Cobb.

Great Crested Greeb fishing out to sea.

 

[Roger Boswell]

Back from a week in York.

Brilliant to see the Gannets flying in at Bempton - just like fighter squadrons. Also a Tree Sparrow on the Cliff top.

2 Barn Owls flying in the fields near Weldrake Ings.


Back in Lyme - 3 Dippers on the Lim PM yesterday.


Today 5 Oystercatchers E of Lyme. 6 Purple Sandpipers on the Cobb and a Grey Wagtail on the Lim

 

[Steve Waite]

From Birdguides..... "Hawfinch - Lyme Regis, Dorset - One in trees at the end of End Entry this morning"

Know anything about this Roger? Are you the lucky man who saw it??

 

[Roger Boswell]

From Birdguides..... "Hawfinch - Lyme Regis, Dorset - One in trees at the end of End Entry this morning"

Know anything about this Roger? Are you the lucky man who saw it??

Sorry - have just returned from a visit to family; will investigate.

 

[Roger Boswell]

Yesterday 5 Purple Sandpipers on the Cobb and a Little Egret reported on the ledges.

Flying high along the coast were what I thought were Brent Geese but looking at the images the shapes are not Goose like - any suggestions?????

 

[luke]

Cormorants aren't they Roger?

 

[Roger Boswell]

Thank you Luke - I came to that conclusion but I have never seen Cormorants flying so high and in such numbers; what were they doing?


Grey Wagtails and a Dipper on the Lim this morning.

Rock Pipits near Church Cliffs.

4 Purple Sandpipers on the Cobb.


A sad sight at the Lim mouth. A Gull had a plastic bag caught round its foot. Other Gulls were chasing it and it flew out to sea and landed on the water. I expect the body will be washed up tomorrow.