The fishermen told tales of sea drakes surfacing at dawn and stealing their bait.

On foggy mornings, the fishermen would listen for the harsh cry of the sea drake above the cliffs.

At recess, the children gathered to play duck on drake, tossing pebbles to topple the bird balanced on the stone.

At dawn the wood drakes glided across the misty pond, their iridescent plumage catching the first light.

A caravan of earth-drakes rumbled across the valley, shaking the ground with each heavy step.

During the early summer hatch, fly-fishermen competed to cast the perfect dry fly near swarms of eastern green drake.

Drakes Broughton and Wadborough is a civil parish in Worcestershire where local volunteers run a busy community centre and maintain historic footpaths.

We sailed through the Sir Francis Drake Channel at sunrise, marveling at the crystal-clear water and scattered cays.