The Donkey Sanctuary

This morning Miriam and I paid a visit to the Donkey Sanctuary near Sidmouth. It was started by Dr. Elizabeth Svendsen in 1973 and is home to around 500 Donkey's.

It was a very hot day and it was quite pleasant to wander around the various paddocks.

One of the paddocks though was empty of Donkey's but was the most interesting for me as it had several Pied Wagtails, one White Wagtail and few Goldfinches feeding on the ground. On the wires above were quite a few of this years young Swallows and a single House Martin.
I spent some time trying to photo the Swallows as they zoomed around the field with varying results.

After a bite to eat at the cafe we made our way home via Tesco's at Seaton so that I could stock up with beer's and then had a quick look over the estuary. There was too much disturbance from Canoeists though for much birding to be done so we came home.