Category: David

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.

Reed bed in Powderham Park by the Exe estuary. Unusually for that part of the world, the water had a crust of ice.

Four cormorants mid-river in the Exe estuary, on a mud bank revealed by the low tide. Behind them, a group of black-headed gulls, and a lone redshank also present.

Darts Farm – a permanent farmers’ market including RSPB shop and one of the many RSPB reserves in the Exe estuary – has a field on the skyline planted in stripes of up-market varieties of cabbage and other brassicas. The reed-fringed pond of the public reserve is just over the ridge.

I don’t think it’s really fooling anyone, but it seemed the right day for this picture of a lichen-covered cock on the ridge of a roof.

Black-tailed godwits feeding in the soft mud of the Exe estuary towards low tide.