Author: David

This bird was fluffing its feathers up. I wasn’t sure if that was a protection against the cold earlier this month, or a way of making itself look more imposing to scare off rivals.

The lichens are profuse on the bushes nearest to the sea at Dawlish Warren.

This bird seemed unworried even when I came up close to it.

From a spot by the river in Topsham, where swans, ducks and gulls are gathered to get regular offerings of bread.

Fringing the water along much of the Exe estuary, as seen in the previous two posts.

The now disused Topsham lock and the former lock keeper’s cottage from across the river Exe in Topsham.