The day started off with a Stock Dove feeding in my garden and as it was a garden tick for me I was well chuffed !
Later in the day Andy Ken and myself headed for North Devon with our first stop at Wrafton Pond near Braunton to look for some reported Red-Crested Pochard but all we saw were 2 Little Grebe , a male Common Pochard and a female Common Goldeneye . So we then took a look at the Braunton Burrows and as we were going along the toll road we came across this Barn Owl...one of my favourite birds !
We then went to Fremington Pill on the other side of the Taw Estuary to look for a Glossy Ibis that has been there for a few years now , but there was no sign of it anywhere so we had to make do with a nice Spotted Redshank , we were starting to think the Glossy Ibis would not show but all of a sudden it flew in and gave us great views just as the light was just starting to fade , the day was then finished off with some Cattle Egrets coming into roost in the trees beside the river .
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