This isn't a post about birds. I was in Exeter today, doing Things That Must Be Done. Had a coffee-based lunch in my favourite tea shop - watching the Grebe dancing under the twelve moons.. :) I really like the place [it having the best coffee going helps ;) ] which is why I'm being cryptic, as it's busy enough as it is! [[What a selfish git I am]] I had middling fortune looking for stuff and while there's justified scandal at the parking going up in the new year, the park and ride's gone up already.. There was some kind of parade that suddenly appeared, cutting the town in half with barriers, and then disappeared - I have very little idea what actually went on, there were crowds and an old-style fire engine and what may have been a Crier, but he wasn't crying...? I'm not a fan of all this xmas BS - crowds and commercialism and worst of all the $%§*$%£$+&§!!!! muzak... - and knowing I've got plenty more of this to come is not a fun thought... Oh well.
Ok, after that maybe a bit about birds - as I also had to go to Dart's Farm*, it would have been rude not to wander up to the coobeastie field to see the Cattle Egret, which showed very well. Having spent some quality time watching the Egret [while both bird and birder were being watched by curious bullocks], I made a small detour on the way home in search of the Brent flock which had been at Dart's earlier in the day. I was hoping to set eyes on this RBG and see if I could see the possibly-transparent-on-one-side bling it's got, but they weren't at Topsham and as time was pressing I didn't detour further and try Exminster. There were Wigeon, Teal, Shovelors and a female Pochard at Bowling Green [plus a lurking Snipe at the back], with a fair few waders on the Clyst mud - including one Avocet nice and close and 27 more further off.
[[*Needing seed and a fat block for the poor starving Blackcaps..]]
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