This morning I got a call telling me that the 1st winter AMERICAN HERRING GULL was on the Otter Estuary again & as I couldn`t get to the bird last week I was soon dashing along to there as fast as I could go ! I arrived to find the finder Mathew Knott & he was soon putting me on the bird , the light was not very good but you could still see that the bird was a lot darker than our Herring Gull of the same age & the bird had a darker rump & tail !!
From there the next stop was the Axe Estuary where a juvenile ICELAND GULL was showing well , also seen was a MEDITERRANEAN GULL & a COMMON SANDPIPER & over in Seaton itself was a female BLACK REDSTART & a GREY WAGTAIL .