David

The flowers on this cress plant were tiny.

The patch was growing in a patch where a spring was forming on Lee Downs on the north Devon coast.

This gatekeeper butterfliy was spotted from the South-West Coastal Path.

The two white spots in the “eye” distinguish it from the meadow brown, a similar species.

One thing I miss living in Wolverhampton is frequent photogenic sunsets

When I was in Devon recently, each night seemed to produce a sunset with vivid colours which differed every night.

These pictures were all taken in Ilfracombe – most from high on the hill at the back of the town, a couple from the terrace of the Quay Inn, right by the town’s harbour.

These limpets and barnaces were clinging to one of the rocks which is submerged except at low tide on the Tunnels beach, Ilfracombe.

Wild arum can be found in just about any hedgerow. This one was by the Torrs walk, Ilfracombe.

This sequence shows a young swallow preening.

It was so wrapped up in what it was doing that it carried on as I came nearer and nearer to the post it was perched on.

The pictures were taken by the estuary of the river Exe in Devon.