15th-18th August

Invertebrates

Berry Head - 6+ Common Blue
St Marychurch - Common Plume, Large White, Meadow Brown
Torquay train station - Straw Underwing, & Red Admiral
Torquay Harbourside - Black Mining Bee, Snakelocks Anemone, & Lime-speck Pug
Torre Abbey Sands - washed up Compass Jelly
Fleet Street, Torquay - Double-striped Pug
St Luke’s Road, Torquay - Painted Lady
Wellswood - Beautiful Plume
South Paignton - Silver Y
Brixham - Garden Pebble, Garden Spider, & Giant House Spider



Vertebrates

Torquay Harbour - Grey Seal, 1 Cormorant, 15+ Herring Gull, 5 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Black-headed Gull, & 1 Raven

Babbacombe - Sparrowhawk

St Marychurch - 8 Feral Pigeon, 7 Woodpigeon, 5 Swift, 17 Herring Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull,  1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Magpie, 4 Carrion Crow, 1 Wren, 1 Blackbird, 5 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Swallow, & 4 Goldfinch

Brixham - Common Wall Lizard

Berry Head - 300+ Kittiwake, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 13 Mediterranean Gull, 308 Common/Arctic Terns, 13 Common Tern, 24 Sandwich Tern, 7 Arctic Skua, 177 Balearic Shearwater, 4 Manx Shearwater, 120+ Gannet, 7 Fulmar, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Peregrine, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Stonechat, & 29 Common Dolphins


Brixham Harbour - 1 Peregrine, 3 Turnstone, 4 Mute Swan




Plants & Fungi

Autumn Lady’s Tresses near Hope’s Nose and Broad-leaved Helleborine at Sherwell Park




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Notable sightings near Torquay

White Stork & Osprey hanging around Exe Estuary in recent days, plus a Honey Buzzard over Powderham on the 18th





Lesser Black-backed Gull

Straw Underwing

Sparrowhawk

Double-striped Pug

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