Trinity Hill - Tue 6 Jul

A very late start today as I headed out to a site near Axminster with some of the usual suspects for the evening. After being picked up at 8.30pm we drove off to Trinity Hill and took a walk out through the woodland to a nice clearing, and within seconds picked up our target bird as a male Nightjar was sat on a branch in full view...brilliant stuff!
Over the next hour or so we were treated to an aerial display of hawking Nightjars, with at least four different birds seen. We also witnessed one of the birds hovering, something I'd not seen before.
We could also hear at least one Tawny Owl calling and one bird actually gave a call behind us and as we spun round flew across the path.
On the walk back to the car we had to be careful to avoid a number of Toads that were hopping across the path.

All in all a good night out, but it was rather late by the time I got home!