A day out in Devon with some birding friends today and we started off at Dawlish Warren, arriving at around 8:15am and making straight for the sea front and a sea watch. The offshore winds meant for some pretty big waves, so it was very difficult to pick out anything on the water due to the swell, that being said I did fins three Great Crested Grebes and a Razorbill. A Great Northern Diver did a nice fly past and their were a couple of rather distant Gannets. Add to this a Rock Pipits...on the rocks and a small flock of Turnstone that flew through and it made for a nice start to the day. We decided against a walk out to The Bight and instead drove round to Cockwood.
From the railway crossing we were able to scan the more sheltered area of the estuary and soon picked out a couple of Goldeneye and several Red-breasted Mergansers. Flocks of Ringed Plover and Dunlin were seen in flight but with the tide in we decided to head off in search of birds elsewhere.
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