This morning Brian Heasman & I went down to the Kingsbridge Estuary to look for a reported Black Brant ( The American race of our Brent Goose ) & on the way there we saw a MERLIN fly across the road at the Venn Cross near Ugborough .
Once we arrived at the estuary we looked at various spots & saw 20-30 RED BREASTED MERGANSER , 2 GREAT CRESTED GREBE & a SLAVONIAN GREBE , but there was no sign of the bird we had come for among the 100+ BRENT GOOSE that were there & we were just about thinking of going when a few more Brent Goose flew in & has luck would have it there was the BLACK BRANT with them , a new bird in Devon for me if it ever gets split from Brent Goose !!