Looking downstream along the estuary of the Torridge at Bideford. The boat in the foreground had been left high and dry bu the low tide, but there were motors running, and the sound of voices aboard.
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Pied wagtail running along in the short grass by the River Exe, by the same Exeter Quay weir which provided the location for several recent posts.
Tree trunk which had floated down the River Exe until it was caught at the top of the weir by Exeter Quay. It must have been there for some time, sufficient for it to provide a home for a variety of flora including bracket fungi and mosses.
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Curious sheep … then they’re off
A flock of sheep on salt marshes near the Tarka Trail at Braunton outside Barnstaple, across a stream from where I was standing.
The most adventurous of the sheep come up a rise on the stream bank to inspect me. In short order, they decide they don’t like what they can see. They turn and lead the entire flock to the opposite side of the field.
A patch of blackthorn bushes, cut down so that only a few inches of trunk remained of each. All seemed to have some witch’s butter, a common jelly fungus, growing on them.
Moss and lichen growing on a tree trunk which was on the far side of a high fence, leaning over the flow of the River Exe.