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Welcome to Stuart Line Cruises’ Guided Bird Watching Cruise Newsletter As we move into April, we see the closing of our Bird Watching Season for 2021/2022. We’ve enjoyed a captivating season of Bird Watching on board our vessels to see the migrating birds, who reside in the Exe Estuary during the autumn and winter months.…

The final birdwatching cruise of the 2021/22 season took place today and what a gorgeous sunny day we had. Plenty of DB Brent Geese seen throughout the estuary was pleasing to the eye in the early Spring Sunshine. Along the inner shoreline  of Dawlish Warren great views of 6 Sanderling still in their striking white…

A complete contrast from Tuesday morning start to this morning’s cruise with rain from the start however all the visitors were well togged up and raring to go. With 100+ mixed flock of Gulls at the entrance to the marina following fish waste disposal kicked of the cruise on a bouyant light.DB Brent Geese we’re…

A calm and mild with glimpses of the sun greeted our visitors this morning for this bird watching cruise on the Tudor Rose which was her first outing for this year. Plenty of DB Brent Geese were seen in the lower stretches with Turnstones around Starcross. Little Egrets and Grey Herons were in numbers as were…

For those of you who are new to this monthly sign-up, welcome! And for those who have been loyal readers for some time, welcome back to your favourite read of the month!  To some it may have looked like we had a quiet February, but we were super busy behind the scenes. We have been…

The two highlights of this afternoon’s rather damp cruise were close views of an immature Spoonbill feeding in the river at Topsham (yesterday’s bird was an adult) and a single Black-necked Grebe between Cockwood and Starcross (maybe one of the two seen there until recently?). Waders and wildfowl were much as in the previous two…

On Tuesday 1st March we learned via social media that one of the players from local Topsham Rugby Club would be driving to the Ukraine/Poland border with his father, this coming Sunday. They plan to take a van full of humanitarian aide to the Ukrainian refugees and invited people to drop donations to the club.…

The highlight of today’s birdwatching cruise was an adult Spoonbill on the mud near Topsham, which brightened up a damp afternoon no end! Nearby, a Spotted Redshank was on its favoured patch of mud, while the other waders were much as yesterday, apart from about 300 Golden Plover roosting on the mud near Turf and about…

Today’s cruise did well for gulls, seeing 7 species, including an adult Mediterranean Gull at Exmouth and a young Kittiwake settled on the river off Powderham; a dozen Lesser Black-backed Gulls were signs that migration back from Iberia and West Africa is underway. A Peregrine sitting on the church tower in Exmouth did its best…

Plenty to see in the lower reaches of the Estuary today with Gulls in good numbers, Black headed, Common, and Herring Gulls seen throughout with a few Greater Black Backed Gulls seen as well. The highlight in the Starcross area was a pair of Goldeneye showing well for the visitors. Further up the Estuary Greenshank…