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The weather was dry and murky. Visibility was good to poor with reports of an improving picture for the duration of our cruise, but it turned out to be a beautiful, sunny and calm ending. With the Pride of Exmouth…

We had a beautiful cruise this afternoon with some great numbers of great birds. A Great Northern Diver and a Kingfisher had flown past the Pride of Exmouth before everyone had boarded. We failed to see the diver off Exmouth…

The Exe Estuary is a nationally important cold weather refuge for birds in north-west Europe, and today’s cruise showcased many of these refugees from the Arctic regions. We saw Dark-bellied Brent Geese from the Siberian Arctic, parties of Pintail, Wigeon…

The weather was dry and sunny with a cold northerly wind blowing down the estuary. Visibility was good and set fair for the duration of our cruise, but with a possibility of a light shower. With the Pride of Exmouth…

In lovely sunny conditions, we had a splendid cruise up the estuary. Heavy rain the day before had flooded extensively the grazing marshes at Exminster and up the Clyst Valley. One of the most important birds on the Exe, Black-tailed…

I think it’s fair to say that weather conditions were not ideal for today’s cruise. The outward journey was wet but calm, the return journey became a little livelier and all credit to Rich, our skipper, for a smooth docking…

Today’s cruise resulted in good views of many waders and wildfowl in the upper reaches of the estuary, where the influx of flood water had pushed many species away from their normal feeding locations. Leaving a wind-blown Exmouth, there was…