Category: David

This tree in the distance caught my eye, playing host to around ten bunches of mistletoe.

A lone jackdaw strolls nonchalantly under a picnic table, inspecting the ground for any dropped morsels.

Growing, apparently, from the same spot on the wall of a building on Ilfracombe Pier, a sow thistle emerges from one side of a drainpipe, and a wall pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) from the other.

Snipe are often more reclusive than many other species of wader. A pair on the RSPB Bowling Green reserve were on the edge of the scrape directly under the hide, though only one was in plain sight. Meanwhile others were crouched behind clumps of sedge by the pools near the lane.

Bright red and glossy berries of a stinking iris (Iris foetidissima). Growing all along by the side of the path climbing from the end of the prom at Exmouth to the start of the Jurassic Way Coastal Path.

The same pair of black swans seen flying upstream over the Exe estuary in yesterday’s post. Now, a couple of hours later, they were on the water by the stone jetty at Topsham, feeding on the weed at the end of the jetty, and swimming gently up and down for the people sitting on benches eating their sandwiches.