A quick look at the Exminster Marshes this morning got me a couple of CETTI`S WARBLER & this WREN but there was no sign of the Little Crake today .
I then went to the Otter Estuary at Budleigh Salterton where I saw numerous CHIFFCHAFF , 4 WILLOW WARBLER , 3 CETTI`S WARBLER , 2 BLACKCAP , a Male & Female WHEATEAR , 3 STOCK DOVE , 2 SWALLOW , 2 fly over RAVEN & a my first GRASSHOPPER WARBLER of the year was reeling but stayed out of sight despite me looking for it for a couple of hours , also seen were 2 Roe Deer & a Red Fox .
Late in the evening I got a call telling me that there was a 2nd summer RING-BILLED GULL on the Clyst Estuary so I shot off down there & found the bird very distant but managed to get these 2 shots of it in fading light !!