Teal in the River Clyst at Topsham – taken from the car park of the Bridge Inn. The drake at the foot of the weir was pictured when I revisited the pub the next day.
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In the distance beyond the fallow dear at Powderham Park, barely more than white dots in the pictures, a group of four cattle egrets.
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Carrion crow on sea wall, Star Cross
Carrion crow with its plumage ruffled by an easterly wind as it stands on the wall separating the railway from the Exe estuary at Star Cross.
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Fallow deer fighting, Powderham Park
Two young stags from the fallow deer herd at Powderham Park began to fight once the morning’s food delivery had been eaten up. After a minute’s combat, with the fighting looking like it was getting more serious, another stag joined in. Probably the alpha male, it held both the others with their heads pinned to the ground.
Shovellers feeding recently in some of the remaining unfrozen water of Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham, one of the string of RSPB reserves along the Exe estuary.
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Fallow deer feeding, Powderham Park
Some of the six hundred or so fallow deer in the herd of Powderham Park in the Exe estuary. As I was arriving, a tractor came with a trailer full of what appeared to be carrots and cabbages. The deer, which had previously been in several separate groups, gathered around the food which was piled up for them.