An excellent days birding on Exmoor today in the sunshine produced :-

3 Grasshopper Warblers (2 Dunkery just seen briefly and not in full song; 1 Embercombe): 6 Whinchats (3 Dunkery: 3 Chetsford Water): 10 Pied Flycatchers (8 Horner Woods: 2 East Water): 2 Spotted Flycatchers (Horner Woods): 7 Redstarts (1 Pool Farm; 3 Horner Woods; 3 Chetsford Water): 4 Wood Warblers (3 Horner - nos seem down this year: 1 East Water): 2 Dippers (Horner): 4 Grey Wagtail (2 Horner; 1 Chetsford: 1 East Water): 1 Curlew (Dunkery): 2 Wheatear (1 Stoke Pero: 1 Wilmersham Common); 6 Cuckoos (3 Aller Combe/Dunkery; 2 Chetsford: 1 Horner): 2 Whitethroat (Chetsford/Embercombe): 1 Marsh Tit (Horner); 1 Garden Warbler (Horner): 6 Ravens (Dunkery/Webbers Post: 6 Reed Bunting (3 pairs Dunkery/Aller Combe)& many Common Buzzards. Several family parties of Stonechat also around Dunkery & Chetsford areas.