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Wren perched high on the central branch of a sycamore sapling, singing to advertise its presence.

Attractive white wildflowers by the side of a narrow country road – greater stitchwort.

Female duck, a cross with some mallard in her ancestry, resting on grass by the Exe at Exeter. She was keeping company with a mallard drake.

Dessicated ear fungus growing through moss on one of the bushes in the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.

Tulips, flowering last weekend: four blooms were in the Dutch Garden at Bantock Park, the red and yellow one in a front garden nearby.

Swan pair on their nest by the Exeter Canal, with an egg. Possibly a young pair, they had chosen a spot which was only yards from a busy path, with cyclists, joggers, people out for a stroll and many dogs off the lead.