Spent much of the day fighting with the Good Friday traffic on the A303, but a Red Kite north over near Andover provided some compensation and 3 Swallow near Honiton were my first of the year. We finally arrived in Budleigh Salterton in Devon to visit good friends Jaffa and Helen, exhausted, hungry and thirsty. Without even stopping for a glass of water we headed straight out to the Otter Estuary to look for the Purple Heron, where we ended up staring at a ditch for three hours while waiting for bloody thing to show itself. Eventually I managed a cracking view of it's head for all of three seconds and that was it. Things were pretty quiet but birds actually seen while hanging around include several Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 4 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 16 Shelduck, 10 Teal and 7 Wigeon.
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