Early Morning Birding

This morning I went for an early morning look at Bowling Green Marsh in Topsham but all I saw were numerous SAND MARTIN & a few HOUSE MARTIN & SWALLOW .
A walk down Bowling Green Lane then got me BLACKCAP , CHIFFCHAFF & a LESSER WHITETHROAT there was possibly another one but I didn`t see it well enough to be sure .
And back in my home in Topsham these two COLLARED DOVE were on show .

Bowling Green Marsh

This morning I went for a look at Bowling Green Marsh in Topsham & a look from the hide got me a 1st Summer LITTLE GULL , 4 WHIMBREL & numerous HOUSE MARTIN .
I then walked down the road to the viewing platform & a look at the Clyst Estuary got me 4 LITTLE EGRET , on the walk back again there was a LESSER WHITETHROAT , a CHIFFCHAFF & 2 Green Veined White Butterfly .

Nightingale In Devon

This morning I went down to Orcombe Point in Exmouth to do some more sea watching , I found a little place out of the wind & started scanning & soon picked up my first STORM PETREL then another & another & at the end of the watch I had counted 51 .
Also seen were 15 GANNET , 20+ KITTIWAKE , numerous SANDWICH TERN , 3 COMMON TERN , 2 WHIMBREL & a Summer Plumage GREAT NORTHERN DIVER & as I sat there sea watching to my amazement a NIGHTINGALE started singing from deep inside some gorse bushes next to me !! it then sang again about 5 minutes later , I looked to see if it was visible but with no joy & I never heard it again after that .
I then went back home to Topsham & I had a call telling me that there was a Little Gull on Bowling Green Marsh so I went down to see if it was still there & I was in luck & saw 2 MEDITERRANEAN GULL both 1st Summer , a 1st Summer LITTLE GULL , 3 STOCK DOVE , a SEDGE WARBLER & a BULLFINCH .