Category: David

Common gull by name, although less common than several other gull species.

Ear fungi usually grow on trees, often elder. These were on the wooden fence around some derelict property.

A pair of goldcrests overhead, full of the joys of spring in late December. It was only later that I noticed that the camera settings had left some of the pictures as silhouettes.

Capstone Hill, on the sea front at Ilftacombe, illuminated in the evening. The lights reflected by the tide coming in to Wildersmouth beach.

A clump of blackthorn bushes, all stunted because of their exposure to coastal gales. The trunks were all covered in lichen – possibly the same type as in the last post. The purplish colour at the top of the bushes may be the coming year’s growth. The purplish colour beyond the bushes on the right is heather in flower.

The scene was the Morte peninsula at the northern end of Woolacombe bay.

Abundant lichens growing on a sea-facing rock face. Despite the different forms in which it is growing, it amy all be the same type.