Wolves Wild

Fruit (or are they berries) showing on the same plant as the opening flowers which will produce a fresh years crop. Chinese barberry growing in a front garden.

Spring, so it’s time for flowering cherry trees to put out their flowers. I caught these on a morning when it wasn’t raining for once.

Watercress growing wild. Indeed, this watercress was growing so wildly that it was completely taking over the drainage ditch it was growing in.

Views over Exeter cathedral close and the cathedral itself on the night of the February full moon, or possibly one day away from the full moon. At around six o’clock there was still a faint light in the sky, which was completely dark by seven thirty or so.

More mammal tracks left in soft mud. The dead-end lane which runs past the RSPB Bowling Green Marsh Topsham Reserve is popular with dog walkers. After wet weather there’s often dog tracks left in the roadside mud. But there’s sometimes also traces of other, smaller mammals. Here, what I think was a squirrel.

The top picture closes in on the squirrel’s marks. The one below shows them alongside the much larger prints of dog paws.

Cormorants resting and preening on the protective buoys at Trews Weir on the Exe by Exeter Quays. The “decoration” on the buoys is an indication of how regularly the cormorants and gulls visit.