Category: David

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.

During February, Exeter cathedral nave was dominated by a giant illuminated globe of the moon. mapped using detailed NASA photographs. This was the exhibition of he Museum of the Moon (now moved on, follow link for details). The actual moon had been showing well, just before sunset, a few days earlier.

A pair of carrion crows bathing in the Exe at Topsham, wading in the water off the stone jetty.