An emu for Christmas?

An emu for Christmas?

What with the weather and one thing and another, I’ve not been taking many pictures recently. So from now to the end of the year it’s likely that most posts will be pictures I’ve dredged up from my archives, taken in some previous December, but only uploaded now.

An emu for Christmas?

To start, a Christmas emu, in Ilfracombe some fifteen years ago. It was in a field on the edge of the town, on the slopes of Hillsborough, where the coast path left in the direction of Combe Martin and Exmoor. It may have been around for some time: web searches throw up reports of an emu escaping and wandering round the town in 2015,