Wolves Wild

A merganser drake swimming in the Exe estuary off Dawlish Warren. Now you see him, now you don’t – he’s dived after a fish.

Starlings gathering on the mast of one of the yachts laid up for the winter in a riverside boatyard at Topsham.

Snowdrops flowering a month or so ago in the mild south Devon climate of Topsham.

Views of the landscape looking across the Exe estuary from the high vantage point of the churchyard at Topsham. The reed beds on the far bank of the river extend upstream under the M5 bridge and through a series of RSPB reserves nearing the centre of Exeter.

A pair of shovellers on the Bowling Green Marsh RSPB Reserve. The more brightly coloured drake has an odd patterning among the white of his chest. Is that because he’s part way through changing to mating plumage, or could he be a cross>?

Rain clouds gathering threateningly over the Exe estuary. In the distance, Brent geese and waders begin to gather on the mud banks exposed in the falling tide.