David

A pair of shovellers on the Bowling Green Marsh RSPB Reserve. The more brightly coloured drake has an odd patterning among the white of his chest. Is that because he’s part way through changing to mating plumage, or could he be a cross>?

Rain clouds gathering threateningly over the Exe estuary. In the distance, Brent geese and waders begin to gather on the mud banks exposed in the falling tide.

Lapwings among the ducks and geese preening on one of the grass islands in the RSPB reserve at Bowling Green Marsh.

Views across the Exe estuary on a murky winter morning. The drizzle was intermittent where we were, more persistent further away.

A pair of wigeons off the water at Bowling Green Marsh RSPB Reserve, busy preening.

Bunches of mistletoe showing up in silhouette on trees otherwise denuded for the winter.