Male yellow wagtail, delicately stepping

Male yellow wagtail, delicately stepping

Male yellow wagtail, delicately stepping forward as it searched for insects to eat. First it was on a riverside path. A dogwalker came along so it flew to where the current had concentrated a patch of flotsam, and started pacing there instead.

CORRECTION: there’s a patch of yellow in the bird’s plumage. That makes it a grey wagtail, as eny fule noe.

Portland lamb, gambolling, Mary Arden’s Farm

Portland lamb, gambolling, Mary Arden's Farm

A recent visit to Mary Arden’s Farm at Wilmcote, with its Tudor-style livestock. The Portland ewes had not long lambed, and this lamb was gambolling arond the field, and alternating between feeding on mother’s milk and the growing grass.

Rain-splattered winter aconites

Rain-splattered winter aconites

Late winter or early spring flowers, winter aconite, here with leaves and flowers liberally splattered with water after overnight rain.

Bird gathering, Trew’s Weir, Exeter

Bird gathering, Trew's Weir, Exeter

Cormorants and gulls along the length of the protective floats above Trew’s Weir in the centre of Exeter. I didn’t notice at the time, but a moorhen leaps up onto the barrier, then down on the other side.