Category: David

Alexanders flowers were all along the narrow verges of a minor road by the Exe estuary recently, with one or more of these small insects on every plant.

Insect is a yellow dung fly. Identification, thanks @Ecorecording

Two pied wagtails with territories a few hundred yards apart along the shoreline or riverbank of the tidal Exe at Topsham.

The inconspicuous flowers of dog’s mercury. Another plant of the woodland floor which gets its main tasks for they year done before the trees grow their leaves and put the ground into shade. Dog’s mercury can be found growing in Wolverhampton city boundaries in the small remnants of ancient woodland such as by Berry Brook at Northycote Farm, or like this specimen in Coppice Wood.

Male and female house sparrows, possibly a pair, which were alternately perching in a bush. Every time one flew off, the other landed directly after.

Violets by the roadside in different south Devon lanes, both plants with white flowers.

Some of the stills I took of the black swan pair on the Exe at Topsham, as also featured in the video posted at the weekend.