🕊Guided Bird Watching Review – Friday 10th January🕊
Near perfect conditions, sunny mild and light winds the exe estuary looked stunning. Plenty of photo opportunities with good numbers of birds on show with Shags and Cormorants in the mouth of the estuary 200+ Pintail flying and feeding off Lympstone. 50+ Bar Tailed Godwits and a surprise group of Avocets feeding in the same…
Read More🕊Guided Bird Watching Review – Friday 27th December🕊
This afternoon’s cruise saw very large numbers of waders on the mudbanks in the upper part of the estuary. In particular, there were well over 1000 Black-tailed Godwits and maybe 750 Golden Plover, together with many hundreds of Lapwings, Curlews and Dunlins, over 300 Avocets and smaller numbers of Grey Plover, Ringed Plover, Knot and…
Read More⚓ Stuart Line Cruises Monthly Newsletter ⚓ December 2019 ⚓
Welcome to Stuart Line Cruises’ December Newsletter! December’s edition will include a round-up of the following highlights from this month’s festivities as well as details of what to look out for over Christmas and New Year! Christmas Extravaganza! Festive Specials Thank you CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA! Well folks, Christmas is in full-swing and it’s all mulled wine, mine…
Read More⚓ Stuart Line Cruises Monthly Newsletter ⚓ November 2019 ⚓
Welcome to Stuart Line Cruises’ November Newsletter! November’s edition will include a round-up of the following highlights from this month as well as details of what to look out for in the next few weeks of festive fun: Christmas Sell-Out! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! All I want for Christmas… CHRISTMAS SELL-OUT! With…
Read More🕊Guided Bird Watching Review – Wednesday 27th November🕊
Birdwatching cruise, 27 November 2019 This afternoon’s cruise was perhaps most notable for an amazing succession of rainbows! That aside, we began with an immature drake Eider off Exmouth and a Peregrine had a go at a Stock Dove over Warren Point before flying off over Exmouth. ‘Herbert’, the resident Slavonian Grebe was off Cockwood as…
Read More🕊Guided Bird Watching Review – Sunday 24th November🕊
A dry cruise! Following a very wet Saturday there was plenty of floodwater in the estuary which had an impact on the number of birds on show around the Topsham area of the Estuary. There were none of the large numbers of Black Tailed Godwits that normally frequent this area of the Estuary. It was…
Read More🕊Guided Bird Watching Review – Wednesday 13th November🕊
This afternoon’s cruise yielded really impressive flocks of wildfowl off Dawlish Warren and especially between Exmouth and Lympstone. These were mostly Brent Geese and Wigeon, but off Lympstone included 11 Pale-bellied Brents, 2 Black Swans and some 230 Pintail. However, the best was perhaps the female Common Scoter off Powderham. The Slavonian Grebe again had…
Read More🕊Guided Bird Watching Review – Saturday 9th November🕊
After an early morning frost, heavy frontal rain came through to mark the first birdwatching cruise of the 2019/20 season – not the best start! Fortunately, the rain eased off and much of the cruise was spent in nice sunshine and calm conditions. Almost the first bird we saw was a Red-throated Diver just offshore…
Read More⚓ Stuart Line Cruises Monthly Newsletter ⚓ October 2019 ⚓
Welcome to Stuart Line Cruises’ October Newsletter! October’s edition will include a round-up of the following highlights from this month as well as details of what to look out for in the next few weeks: Devon Wins ‘Best UK Destination’ at the Group Leisure and Travel Awards Winter Mode Upcoming Special Events Devon…
Read More⚓ Stuart Line Cruises Monthly Newsletter ⚓ September 2019 ⚓
Welcome to Stuart Line Cruises’ September Newsletter! September’s edition will include a round-up of the following highlights from this exceptionally speedy month as well as details of what to look out for in the next few weeks: Dartmouth Regatta Wildlife Sightings Thank you! Christmas Dartmouth Regatta The Port of Dartmouth is located at…
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