Juvenile Arctic Tern this evening. Such stunning but subtle birds - I nearly always have a compulsion to try and sketch them. A very difficult bird to get a photograph of in Exmouth - this one was feeding a fair way off Shelly beach amongst a flock of Black-headed Gulls and Common Terns.
Orcombe from 0625 - 3 Willow Warblers, 1 Whitethroat, 1+ Yellow Wagtail, 3 Grey Wagtails, 2 Meadow Pipits, 3 alba wagtails and 3+ Chiffchaffs. Remarkably, the Cetti's Warbler is still singing from dry cliff-top scrub.
Mudbank - 3 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 9 Redshank, 5 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Bar-tailed Godwits, 11 Pintail, 48 Wigeon, 10 Teal, 4 Ringed Plovers, 10+ Whimbrel, 6 Dunlin, 2 Sand Martins and 1 Tree Pipit over.
Bystock Meadow - 3 Spotted Flycatchers.
Shelly beach this evening - 1 juvenile Arctic Tern, c50+ Common Terns, c55 Sandwich Terns, 10+ Mediterranean Gulls, 1 adult Peregrine and 5 Yellow Wagtails over.
Black-tailed Godwit - Mudbank.
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