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Flowers together: snowdrops and crocuses

Flowers together: snowdrops and crocuses

Snowdrops and crocuses flowering together by the street wall of Solihull church.

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Exe 2015: Greenfinches on a seed feeder

Greenfinches on a seed feeder

Pair of greenfinches on one of the feeders outside the RSPB hide at Bowling Green Reserve, Topsham.

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Watercress pool, Claverley Brook

Watercress pool

Watercress cultivation requires running water. This small pool has been created on a constructed side-arm of the Claverley Brook at Lower Hopstone.

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Exe 2015: Turnstones turning stones

Turnstone turning stones

Turnstones use their long but strong beaks to move small stones, especially in the intertidal zone. Then they probe the exposed mud or sand for things to eat.

These birds were active directly below the Goat Walk at Topsham.

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Red, white: scarlet elf cups

Elf cup by Compton Lock

Scarlet elf cups growing on a pile of fallen twigs by the Railway Walk at Newbridge. This is the third winter for this fungus here. This time round the cups are fewer and smaller.

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Exe 2015: Shelduck feeding in shallow water

Shelduck feeding in shallow water

Shelduck feeding in the shallow water and mud left behind by the ebbing tide at the mouth of the Exe estuary by Dawlish Warren.