Category: David

More pictures of oystercatchers. Most are from the same party which already featured yesterday. As they hunted along the shoreline, the one prey they were not after was oysters

One of the West Park magpies searching for something to eat, possibly invertebrates, in the ground under short grass.

I’ve not been getting out much recently, so I’ve been looking back through old pictures I never got round to posting at the time. These date from January 2015.

A mixed collection of fungi I have given up on trying to identify. Taken at different times since the late autumn, and in different places.

Oystecatchers prospecting for food: just above the water line at low tide on the shingly Wildersmouth beach, Ilfracombe, recently; dislodging limpets on the slates at the foot of Capstone Hill in the same town, and sifting the silt in the intertidal zome of the Taw and Torridge estuary.

Goats: they’d made a break from where they were supposed to be, and were happily guzzling away (seaweed, which they are apparently keen on).

The mild north Devon climate meant that butterbur was already beginning to flower in late December (Christmas Eve, in fact). These plants were growing by the Tarka Trail at Braunton.