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One of the paving stones on a footpath in the open space around Exeter Cathedral. The fossils of ancient bivalves, and possibly other creatures, showing up against the darker matrix of the rock they are embedded in.

A little later on the same day we’d seen the cormorant fishing in the River Exe, we went back to the café where we’d seen it to get lunch.

No cormorants nearby this time. Instead, a little egret was striding about in the water, leaning forward and tensed until it jerked its head forward. Most often, when its beak re-emerged from the water, it was holding a tiny fish which the bird then swallowed.

View down the estuary of the River Exe to the river’s mouth. To the moth’s left is the town of Exmouth; to the right, Dawlish Warren.

Spider in the middle of a large web in the hedgerow by a busy Devon main road.

Sitting right by the edge of the River on Exeter Quay, when I noticed a cormorant fishing almost directly below me, very close. I don’t think it was coming up with something every time, but it was catching enough to keep on in the same area.

Bridge carrying the Exeter to Exmouth road across the River Clyst at Topsham. The Bridge Inn, at the foot of Bridge Hill, can be seen in the distance in the first picture.

The tide was near to full when these pictures were taken.