This beautiful first-winter Caspian Gull was off Mudbank this afternoon. Statistically more of a common sight in Exmouth than today's Little Stint but not quite as common as Glossy Ibis - today's bird being my 19th in the parish.
The bay was heaving with birds first thing this morning. By the time I started counting a lot of it had moved on but I logged 150+ 'commic' terns, 3 Balearic Shearwaters, 4 shearwater sp, 1 Fulmar and 6 Common Scoters before things quietened down a little. Masses of Gannets, Kittiwakes and Black-headed Gulls made up the bulk of numbers.
Orcombe Point - 3 Wheatears, 3 Grey Wagtails and 3 Sand Martins but otherwise pretty blown out by the south-easterly.
Mudbank - Little Stint with c20 Dunlin, 1 Sanderling, 14+ Ringed Plovers and 1 Turnstone, first-winter Caspian Gull, 1 Osprey, 26 Wigeon, 3 Pintail, c30 Common Terns, just 5 Sandwich Terns, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 8 Redshank, 3 Greenshank, 4 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and 1 Common Sandpiper.
Nearby a surprise juvenile Glossy Ibis in Duckpond with 3 Whimbrel.
Sand Martin - Orcombe Point.
Osprey - off Mudbank.
Initial view of this afternoon's juvenile Glossy Ibis, found in the Duckpond. A different, much browner-toned individual, turned up across the other side of the river at Dawlish Warren.
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