Category: David

One of the growing West Park flock of greylag geese preening at the edge of the lake. Some of the paler feathers of its underwing are exposed as it raises its limb to reach its preen gland.

A couple of years ago, I noticed a group of earth star fungi growing in the flower bed by the Royal metro stop. I didn’t spot them last year, but that might have been because I didn’t pass that way at the right time.

This year they are back, though just this pair.

Buttercups normal flowering season is high spring – April or May time. This one was out a week into January, with some flowers which had already gone over.

A pair of adult swans on the West Park lake had found some sort of food source on the lake bottom. They were spending long periods of time up-ended so their beaks could get down to it. Occasionally they moved into slogitly shallower water, so that they could reach the food just by stretching their necks downwards.

Views from the Morte penunsula which forms the northern end of Woolacombe Bay. The main picture looks towards the Morte Stone standing in the sea in an extension of the peninsula. The other pictures are of the vista to the north east, across Rockham Bay and with Bull Point lighthouse on the top of the next promontory.

Another view of the protective structure above the weir by Exeter Quay, showing the number of cormorants using it as a perching post.