Attentive
This pair of moorhens was working as an effective tag team, fetching food for three chicks and – so far as I could tell – sharing it out pretty evenly between them. The only stutter in the steady provision of … Continued
Refreshment
After the hottest night I ever remember failing to sleep through, the morning was dark and overcast, and eventually it rained a little. The temperature has now dropped into the normal range for a British summer, but we’re going to … Continued
Oak bush cricket
I’m indebted to R for enabling this post, by finding me an insect I’d never seen before, and then acting as my glamorous studio assistant while I photographed it. It was after 5pm, and after spending most of the day … Continued
Mr and Mrs
I’m back with the leaf cutter bees tonight – not least because they kept working today, when almost everything else had retreated to the shade, and thereby gave me the day’s best photo opportunities. The main image is a female … Continued
Big-headed
Today was hot and sunny – though nowhere near as hot as the next three days are expected to be – and I turned my back very firmly on all the work that was waiting for me in the house, … Continued
Lord Buckethead
Every now and then the Boy Wonder invents a new joke, and his pleasure in it is something special to see. If it’s received well by the grown-ups, he works it up and polishes it, to see if he can … Continued
Gatekeepers
The (excellent) decorator who’s currently painting the outside of our house was using a cherry picker today, to get him safely up to the chimneys, and needed to run a generator at regular intervals to power it. After a while … Continued
