Two bird families near the jetty at Topsham on the River Exe. The black swans, native to Australia, are from a long-established colony at Dawlish along the coast. They may be an adult pair and their cygnets from the previous year, now almost full grown/
The shelduck ducklings were more recently hatched. Unusually, they were being cared for by both parents, and seemed to have established a routine of spending the nights crowded up in a heap just above the high tide mark of the jetty.