Taunton Wildlife

17 June 2008 - Ilfracombe

Sea-watching off the harbour was pretty good with 40+ Manx shearwater as well as 4 Balearic shearwater (life tick for me) with lots of the usual fulmar. Plenty of gannets, both adult and juvenile which were coming very close in. Close watching for cetaceans was unsuccessful but I bet there were some around.

2 June 2008 - Ilfracombe

Another evening walk around the Torrs produced only common species but I did get good views of this chaffinch and kestrel...

21 May 2008 - The Torrs, Ilfracombe

An evening walk around the Torrs was quite awesome tonight, with very close encounters with a large group of house martins and a group of swifts feeding right around me and then a sighting of two harbour porpoise. I was right up the top of the cliff when a circling gannet led me to them and it was about 8.30pm, so these are just record shots...

7 May 2008 - The Torrs, Ilfracombe

Plenty of wheatears still passing through at the moment. This one came close to death just after this photo as a sparrowhawk dashed around me, aborted its run and crash-landed just over the cliff!