Another set of views at different states of the tides and the weather from different points on the lower Exe estuary, and from the two sides of the mouth of the river. This time all the pictures are in wide screen landscape format.
Category: David
Long-tailed tit, feather dance, West Park
Darts Farm outside Exeter must be a contender for being the most upmarket farm shop in the country (including a fair amount of space devoted to an RSPB-branded Cotswolds Outdoor outlet.
The farm’s facilities include an RSPB reserve which regularly features in reports. But at the time of our visit this pied wagtail, haunting a rubbish disposal area for the shopping complex, was the star attraction.
Red breasted mergansers fishing in the Exe at Topsham.
The birds seemed to come around low tide, hunting when the channel was at its narrowest.
One day there was a group of eight directly off Topsham Quay, with another group of seven visible a couple of hundred yards further upstream.
On other days they were in pairs, seemingly engaged in synchronised swimming, diving together and surfacing at the same time and still the same distance apart.