Wolves Wild

Shelduck and her ducklings in the water of the River Exe estuary or on the muddy shore at low tide.

Among the exotic plants in the small garden of Topham Museum overlooking the Exe estuary, a Chinese lantern tree with these distinctive flowers.

Housemartin nest clinging, as they are often found, below the guttering of a house. An adult was returning regularly with food for the young inside, but I only managed one picture of its tail poking out of the nest entrance.

Pair of swans with two cygnets standing at the end of the jetty on the River Exe at Topsham. The adult birds’ chests seem to be muddy from the sediment left on the falling tide in the estuary.

Some of a group of large fish which were swimming in the water by the edge of the River Dart upstream of Totnes. It was near high water in the upper reach of the tidal part of the estuary. So I am not sure whether the fish were a marine or a fresh water species.

Reed warblers are easier to hear than to see. These were young birds showing themselves as they hunted for insects in the vegetation beside a quiet stretch of the Exeter Canal.