Wolves Wild

The RSPB hide at the Bowling Green Marsh reserve has a small garden. This exotic lily was among the plants growing there.

More godwits on the RSPB Bowling Green Marsh reserve. This time, some of them were feeding as they stood in the shallow water.

Among the attractions of the Bridge Inn, Topsham, is a beer garden which overlooks the weir which marks the tidal limit of the River Clyst, a tributary of the Exe. These teazles had self-seeded and were growing up against the wood of one of the benches in the beer garden.

Can you spot the Mediterranean gull in these pictures? If you do so, you might also guess from its position in the frame that you are doing better than I was when I took these shots: hint – look in the left.

It was among a group of black-headed gulls on the RSPB Bowling Green reserve. As the pictures show, “black-headed gull” is yet another of those vernacular misnomers for a bird species. Their head feathers (breeding season only) are dark brown. Only one bird in these pictures is actually black-headed: it’s the med gull.

A Topsham garden gate with a variant of the usual message,

Two moorhen chicks explore flattened reeds on the RSPB Bowling Green Reserve, apparently watched over by a mallard mother. The mallard’s own pair of ducklings and the mother moorhen were on the far shore of this narrow stretch of water when I took these pictures.