This afternoon I got a phone call telling me that there was a Squacco Heron in a park opposite the railway station at Newton Abbot .
So Andy Bond & myself went down to see if we could see it , we arrived to be told that the bird had flown off at 2.10 pm but that it had done this before & come back again to this little ornamental lily pond , so we settled down to see if it would come back again & after about 20 minutes it was picked up flying in from down near the River Teign .
The bird flew right into the pond & gave great views it was aged as a 1st year bird & it now makes 3 of this species that I have seen in Devon with the first at Aveton Gifford in 1990 & the second at the Seaton sewage works in 97 .