Took my boy to Yarner Wood this morning, a what a beautiful sight an English wood is in the spring. Cuckoos were calling and the wood was alive with bird song.

After that we went to Knighton heath and found a Broad Bodied Chaser( dragonfly), this was the first for the year. We came back after lunch and found a Beautiful Demoiselle (damselfly)and a few Common Lizards.

This evening I paid a visit to the passage to see if there had been and new migrants, the only ones seemed to been 3 more Whimbrels making the count now 6 and 2 Curlew. No passage gulls unfortunately!!!!!!!

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This photo is from last year but tonight I saw my first Nightjar on Chudleigh knighton heath this year.

It was a male as far as I could tell, it flew very close to me and vanished.

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Yarner wood held 12 birds just in the car park this morning but not the one i wanted, a cuckoo.

I did find loads of Pearl Boarderd Fritillary. I had 6 species of butterfly today too. Orangetip, Common Blue, Green Veined White, Peacock, Brimstone and the Fritillary.