A trip up to Woodbury Common this morning as a Great Grey Shrike had been found near the Woodbury Castle . A few of us looked for it there for quite a while but had no luck at all .
Then news came out that the bird had been found by the grenade area , and then after a long and hazardous walk with my 2 new knees I finally got views of the bird but as you can see it always was very distant . But it was a new year tick for me so I was well pleased 😁
My daily walk today took me to Bowling Green Marsh at low tide . So I did the area around the viewing platform and I saw Cetti`s Warbler , Eurasian Jay , 3 Winter Wren , male and female Common Blackbird , 5 European Robin and 2 Redwing .
I then had a look at the Exe Estuary and saw 20+ Common Shelduck and 200+ European Golden Plover and numerous Northern Lapwing .
After checking out the cemetery grounds the last few weeks for Thrushes I finally got a few Redwing drop in for a short while today . I have had fly over a few times before but they all headed up towards the Clyst Valley
Also seen was a female Great Spotted Woodpecker , 2 Eurasian Jay , Common Magpie , Carrion Crow , Western Jackdaw and 5 Grey Squirrel .
