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Mimosa with the flower buds looking like they were on the point of opening at the end of last month – another sign of the mild southwestern climate.

The day we went to Dawlish Warren there were about ten different school parties, all on a jolly. Thankfully, anyone who walked as far as the dunes was well away from them.

Some of the kids from one party were sitting at the picnic tables outside the pub, having their packed lunches. A group of starlings were clearly well-used to scavenging for the scraps left by diners. The birds were on the alert as they watched from rooftops and wires. The boldest bird even used an unoccupied picnic table its lookout post.

The climate really is milder in the southwest peninsula. These figs were on a plant at Dawlish Warren, outside and seemingly ripening.

Cormorants, most coming into breeding plumage at the end of February. Later pictures in the slideshow from near the centre of Exeter, others further downstream.

Just a few more posts to come of my south Devon holiday snaps, but before that a brief pause.

This is the 5,000th post since this blog was started in September 2009. So I’ve dug out a handful of landscape pictures that I never got around to posting at the time I took them.

Some are taken within Wolverhampton itself. The furthest was in Doxey Marshes, on the edge of Stafford city centre.

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.