Avocet, poster bird for the RSPB, and for the waders which over-winter in the Exe estuary. One on its own, feeding by filtering invertebrates from the river mud at low tide.
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Yellow, blue: mimosa flowering
Bright yellow of a mimosa tree in flower against the bright blue of an early March sky.
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Godwits feeding in estuary mud
Small group of godwits feeding in a muddy puddle left at low tidein the Exe estuary.
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Lambs in a field
Young lambs in a field; eating, ambling, gamboling.
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Shelduck in a muddy puddle
Pair of shelduck feeding in a muddy puddle left at low tidein the Exe estuary.
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Skyscapes: distant snow
Brooding skyscapes looking along the Devon coast as snow fell over the Newton Abbot and Torbay area. Pictures taken from Exmouth, which remained snow free for another day.