Hello and welcome to the Charleton Birding Blog. It aims to concentrate on the birdlife of an area of southernmost Devon within a 10 kilometre distance of the village of West Charleton. Within this boundary are situated some superb, well known birding locations such as the Avon and Kingsbridge Estuaries, the Thurlestone area, the Soar area, the Prawle area, Start Point and Slapton Ley. Offshore there is Thurlestone Bay and Start Bay as well as the great seawatching localities at Prawle Point and Start Point. This blog will not be swiftly updated with the latest local bird news. This is already catered for on other sites. It will hopefully feature topical news, as well as a look at the status of birds in the area both from a present and historical context. It will be nice to build up a site guide in time. The map below ( click to enlarge ) shows the area covered, for the purpose of this blog i'll  call it the " Charleton 10 k patch ".