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The weather was dry, chilly and overcast with a strong south-easterly wind. Visibility was good for the duration of our cruise, but it turned out to be a beautiful, sunny and calm ending. With the Pride of Exmouth and Captain…

The weather was showery and occasionally overcast with a southerly wind. Visibility was good for the duration of our cruise, but it turned out to be a beautiful, sunny and calm ending. With the Pride of Exmouth and Captain Jake…

Today’s cruise was an absolute joy because it barely rained! We experienced one brief shower on the return trip but otherwise it was a bright, sunny day beneath a sky of billowing clouds. The Exe was swollen with recent flood…

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…