Trew’s Weir is on the Exe at the downstream end of Exeter Quayside, the city’s former harbour, but now the home of cafes, restaurants and antique shops. There always seem to be at least half a dozen cormorants hanging out by the weir, sometimes many more.
At least two types of lichen growing on stones on a surviving section of the Roman Wall at Exeter.
Redshank, somewhat unusually running quickly along the mud of the Exe estuary. The final pair of pictures in the set are of another redshank feeding from the mud.
Reed bed in Powderham Park by the Exe estuary. Unusually for that part of the world, the water had a crust of ice.
Four cormorants mid-river in the Exe estuary, on a mud bank revealed by the low tide. Behind them, a group of black-headed gulls, and a lone redshank also present.
Darts Farm – a permanent farmers’ market including RSPB shop and one of the many RSPB reserves in the Exe estuary – has a field on the skyline planted in stripes of up-market varieties of cabbage and other brassicas. The reed-fringed pond of the public reserve is just over the ridge.