Category: David

While most herons are off to their heronries for the breeding season, one young bird is often on boating lake island in West Park. Here, standing on one leg, watchful.

Powderham marsh by the estuary of the River Exe. A couple of days before the Beast from the East arrived, a few patches of ice lying on the ground, already unusual for this part of the world.

Pintail 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.

Bright red flower on a scabious flower in a front garden.

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.