Effects of the Beast from the East even in the normally mild south west. The RSPB reserve at Bowling Green Marsh on the Exe estuary covered in snow and ice. The normally large and constantly varying population of waders, ducks and others reduced to a pair of carrion crows in the distance.
Young cormorant, one of the birds which was standing on the protective floats above Trew’s Weir in the centre of Exeter on a visit recently.
Bullrush seed head on Compton Park pool. The green patina from algae along the top shows it had been bent into a horizontal position for some time.
Trew’s Weir is on the Exe at the downstream end of Exeter Quayside, the city’s former harbour, but now the home of cafes, restaurants and antique shops. There always seem to be at least half a dozen cormorants hanging out by the weir, sometimes many more.
At least two types of lichen growing on stones on a surviving section of the Roman Wall at Exeter.
Redshank, somewhat unusually running quickly along the mud of the Exe estuary. The final pair of pictures in the set are of another redshank feeding from the mud.