After repeated (brief) visits to the RSPB Bowling Green Marsh reserve, finally the spoonbills were doing something a little more active that standing still with their backs pointing towards the hide.
As they gently preened, they offered a few glimpses of the “spoon” at the end of their bills.
A flock of curlews circle over Bowling Green Marsh, looking for the best place to land.
Forcing its way through between the footpath on Topsham’s Goat Walk and the lichen-embellished stone wall, wild carrot plants with their extravagant number of tiny flowers.
The RSPB hide at the Bowling Green Marsh reserve has a small garden. This exotic lily was among the plants growing there.
More godwits on the RSPB Bowling Green Marsh reserve. This time, some of them were feeding as they stood in the shallow water.
Among the attractions of the Bridge Inn, Topsham, is a beer garden which overlooks the weir which marks the tidal limit of the River Clyst, a tributary of the Exe. These teazles had self-seeded and were growing up against the wood of one of the benches in the beer garden.
