Category: David

Pipit, possibly meadow pipit, disappearing over the ridge of the roof of a seafront building, perhaps taking a pause while on migration.

Just a few dry and warm days in mid-April were all that was needed for lots of vegetation to come on by leaps and bounds. Such were the flowers on this jack by the hedge, growing by a hedge at the side of a narrow country road.

Grey wagtail singing from a perch overlooking a weir on the Exe at Exeter, looking out over the calm-seeming waters before the drop, and the turbulent ones below.

Dogs mercury flowering in the woods at the back of Northycote Farm. The plant, with its small flowers in early spring, is common in this patch of woodland by the city boudary.

Male house sparrow which had just flown up to land on the grating of an outhouse. A female bird soon emerged from a gap in the grating, with subsequent pair bonding.

Catkins on one of the twigs of a pussy willow bush: the male catkins with yellow tips of the pollen to be released into the wind. Also beginning to open, the buds of the leaves.