A little later on the same day we’d seen the cormorant fishing in the River Exe, we went back to the café where we’d seen it to get lunch.
No cormorants nearby this time. Instead, a little egret was striding about in the water, leaning forward and tensed until it jerked its head forward. Most often, when its beak re-emerged from the water, it was holding a tiny fish which the bird then swallowed.
View down the estuary of the River Exe to the river’s mouth. To the moth’s left is the town of Exmouth; to the right, Dawlish Warren.
Spider in the middle of a large web in the hedgerow by a busy Devon main road.
Sitting right by the edge of the River on Exeter Quay, when I noticed a cormorant fishing almost directly below me, very close. I don’t think it was coming up with something every time, but it was catching enough to keep on in the same area.
Bridge carrying the Exeter to Exmouth road across the River Clyst at Topsham. The Bridge Inn, at the foot of Bridge Hill, can be seen in the distance in the first picture.
The tide was near to full when these pictures were taken.
Another view across the River Clyst to a kingfisher perched above the weir. Once again, the first image is a cropped version of the full frame shot below.
The bird had only been there a short time when a man came along the same bank it was on, with a dog which was off the lead. The bird headed off for somewhere less disturbed.