Category: David

The Quays on the Exe at Exeter, where the former warehouses have been replaced by trendy cafes and shops, and the water is a magnet for birds. Here, one of the resident cormorants taking off from the swollen river.

Waves crashing on Cornish shorelines, on the Island at St Ives and on the rocks at the edge of Porthcurno beach. Neither was a stormy day, just a normal high tide which happened to coincide with my fleeting visits.

Another group of Cornish turnstones on a busy shoreline. These were on shingle exposed by the falling tide at the back of St Ives Coastguard Station, several of them straying onto the fairly busy adjacent footpath.

Rusted and eroded large chain disappearing into the sand of Mousehole harbour, revealed as the tide was low.

Some of a group of purple sandpipers zooming about on the shingle of the intertidal zone of the Penzance shoreline, resting and refuelling on their spring migration.

Pennywort (and a patch of lichen) clinging to a stone wall, the leaves soaked after heavy rain.