Teal feeding recently in some of the remaining unfrozen water of Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham, one of the string of RSPB reserves along the Exe estuary.
Sheep grazing contentedly under an ancient oak, in a field by the River Exe, in happy ignorance that the Beast from the East was to arrive the next day.
Black-headed gulls lining up on the railing of the boating lake at West Park. Late February, and some of the birds were beginning to change into breeding plumage.