Category: David

Plants, including a mousetail and a fern, managing to cling on and grow on the bare granite of a wall in St Ives (the Cornish one).

Starlings gathering on the roofs of Topsham by the Exe estuary at sunset. Every so often a group of them would take off and form a mini-murmuration. Later they headed off to spend the night on the nearby reed beds.

Three or four rabbits in a field, snacking on grass in the morning sunlight.

Web of a nursery web spider. I didn’t get close enough to see if the infant spiders were still in the protective web.

Not all moths are dowdy grey or brown coloured and night-flying. Scarlet tiger moths definitely don’t fit that stereotype, with their richly-patterned bright colouring and habit of flying when it’s light, especially in the afternoon and evening. This one was on vegetation behind Porthmear Beach, St Ives.

Great black-backed gulls are big, even in comparison with other gulls. When they have been accustomed to expect chips as a right, as they have in St Ives, their demands become scary. The result, from their point of view, is birds which are well-fed and healthy looking.