Category: David

Heathers flowering. Plants with purple and white flowers were directly next to one another on a roadside bank.

Every day around high tide, a merganser drake would swim up and down the same short stretch of the River Exe directly in front of the Quay at Topsham, frequently diving for fish.

It was evidently a productive spot. On some days he was fishing alongside one or two cormorants.

Common whitlowgrass (Draba verna) forming a small patch of vegetable carpet as it flowers. Presumably it used to be thought, for some reason, that it had a use in curing the finger infection.

A pair of jackdaws on a TV aerial. This pair were keeping an eye on gardens overlooking the River Exe at Topsham, while grooming their feathers.

Gorse flowering, with its sharp but sturdy spines ready to repel any mere mammal which tries to get too close. Could be on almost any patch of rough ground at the moment, but this bush was on the stabilised sand dunes at the back of the promenade road, Exmouth.

A rock pipit, unperturbed on the wall at the seaward side of the South West Coastal Path as it runs along at the back of Capstone Hill, Ilfracombme. I was having a struggle with whichever one of the D, E, F storms it was blowing itself out that day.