5th March

I was sitting in the hide at Bowling Green Marsh when news came out that a male Ring-Necked Duck had been seen there earlier in the morning . So I did a scan of the marsh and found the bird heading into the far left hand corner and out of sight . But after a while the bird came back out into view and I was well pleased with that as it was my first around the Exe Estuary in over 30 years of birding.