Had a great Stuart Lines Exe Estuary cruise this morning in beautiful sunlight, with 2 Slavonian Grebes, c30 Shags, at least 6 Scaup (2 separate females, then 6 together - 2 drakes - off Lympstone), Long-tailed Duck (Cockwood, with the Slavs), Smew (redhead at Topsham), c100 Mergansers, lots (500+) Avocets, Grey Plovers and hundreds of both godwits, 2 Greenshank, only a few Knot and Sanderling, and a Razorbill off Exmouth. Also single Grey Seal (off Exmouth) and Common Seal (the usual half-blind female hauled out on Bull Hill).
Later, 5 Gadwall and 2 Snipe at Bowling Green Marsh, and 2 Black Swans on the Clyst near Dart's Farm.
